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Subject: Re: git is live
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On 25/10/13 14:55, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wro=
te:
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.

I believe the GCC policy is that the code must also be assigned to the
FSF, just as it would be for trunk.

R.