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From: "redi at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug c/78352] GCC lacks support for the Apple "blocks" extension to the C family of languages
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:20:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-78352-4-tXs8SU9o6W@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-78352-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78352

--- Comment #16 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #13)
> If we could get in touch with an actual lawyer to review which laws
> specifically are getting in the way here, that could be helpful. I won my
> election to the New Hampshire State Legislature so if there's any
> legislation I could pass to make it legal to apply those patches here in NH,
> I'd love to know how to write it.

I assume the issue is that Apple's patches are GPLv2 and GCC is GPLv3+, and
also that FSF wants copyright assignments for patches to GCC (which is FSF
policy, not law).

Passing laws in NH to allow us to ignore the copyright holder's licence terms
and relicense them as we want would probably violate international conventions,
and would not help in other jurisdictions.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-09  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-78352-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
2020-11-07 12:36 ` grobian at gentoo dot org
2020-11-07 12:53 ` iains at gcc dot gnu.org
2020-11-07 16:29 ` egallager at gcc dot gnu.org
2020-11-08  9:11 ` grobian at gentoo dot org
2020-11-08  9:25 ` iains at gcc dot gnu.org
2020-11-09  8:20 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org [this message]
2022-05-13 21:04 ` egor.pugin at gmail dot com
2022-11-05 19:23 ` vital.had at gmail dot com
2023-06-04 19:01 ` vital.had at gmail dot com
2023-06-04 19:28 ` iains at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-12-11 22:55 ` vital.had at gmail dot com
2023-12-11 22:58 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-12-31  0:58 ` vital.had at gmail dot com
2023-12-31  7:24 ` iains at gcc dot gnu.org
2024-01-01  0:57 ` egallager at gcc dot gnu.org

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