From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2852 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2007 02:31:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 2839 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Dec 2007 02:31:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from VLSI1.ULTRA.NYU.EDU (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:31:43 +0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA26683; Tue, 25 Dec 07 21:31:18 EST From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <10712260231.AA26683@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:53:00 -0000 To: dewar@adacore.com Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages Cc: aoliva@redhat.com, bernds_cb1@t-online.de, dberlin@dberlin.org, ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, sam@rfc1149.net, schwab@suse.de, tejgcc@westnet.com.au In-Reply-To: <4771B975.9020602@adacore.com> References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <200712022136.57819.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <4aca3dc20712021240k19f3eae5j66453276179c401a@mail.gmail.com> <200712022355.23871.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <4aca3dc20712021621n39a036d2u21f471f231dfffe@mail.gmail.com> <10712031329.AA20246@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <1198609072.25084.14.camel@tim-gcc> <10712260210.AA25957@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4771B975.9020602@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00682.txt.bz2 > >> (Minor quibble) As copyright owner of GCC, the FSF is not bound by the > >> conditions of the licence it grants in the same way as licencees are > >> bound. So I don't think this provision in itself would mandate that > >> those who have copyright assignments to the FSF record their changes. > > > > I was hoping nobody would notice that. ;-) > > > Actually I think this is wrong, the FSF holds the copyright by virtue of > a copyright assignment which contains the guarantee that the software > will be distributed under the GPL (at least that's my recollection of the > assignment document). That part's true, but the cited part of the GPL applies only to somebody who makes a *modification* to the work of the copyright holder and redistributes that work. Such a condition doesn't apply to the FSF, who *is* the copyright holder.