From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Darwin port (Part 0)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49187957.7030203@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110175252.GE5112@adacore.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> There is no copyright obstacle that I know of - Apple made a blanket
>> assignment to the FSF for all future GDB changes.
>>
>
> I'm still a bit concerned, primarily because I'm not a lawyer.
> But does having a blanket assignment for all past and future changes
> mean that any GDB code they write and put on their website is
> automatically assigned to the FSF?
That's exactly what the blanket assignment means. In fact one of the
goals, going back to the overall Darwin open source effort, was to
enable non-Apple people to contribute code to public repositories
without being blocked on Apple engineers unavailable due to internal
deadlines and such. (Yes, it could also be thought of as exploiting the
community :-) , but now it's working to our advantage.)
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-10 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-10 10:19 Tristan Gingold
2008-11-10 17:53 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-10 18:12 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-11-10 18:50 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2008-11-10 18:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-11-12 8:34 ` Tristan Gingold
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