Re: git is live

Ian Lance Taylor
2013-10-25T13:55:14Z

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 01:01 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> The URLs:
>>
>> git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
>> ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
>
> Ok, it's probably getting old, but I'll add my thanks
> for switching us over. Now to my question...
>
> >From a policy standpoint, are we going to allow vendor branches
> in the git repo like glibc does? I'm hoping the answer is yes. :)
> We didn't allow it before due to it seems CVS issues, but with git,
> it should now be easy.

GCC has always allowed vendor branches. I don't see any reason that
binutils/gdb should prohibit them. Obviously all the code has to be
under the GPL or some other explicitly permitted license.

Ian