Re: OT: copyright issues (was: Re: D Symbol Demangling)

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-20T15:46:39Z

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:40:15AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > What is the problem with importing fixes from the proprietary copy
> > to the FSF code if the person has the copyright assignment?
>
> If the patch author has the right assignments, he/she can publish the
> patch itself under both licenses, so that it can be applied to both.
>
> What you can't do is take the fix from the sources themselves and
> apply it to the other sources, because once they're published under
> one license you don't have the right to change that license to
> something else.

Right. The precise situation I was alluding to is that you need to
track authorship of changes; you can't accept fixes to the other
version from contributors without an FSF copyright assignment and
propogate them into GDB.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery