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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, rittle@rsch.comm.mot.com, morganw@engr.sc.edu,
	rth@cygnus.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199909201624.JAA16030@zack.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <686.937827079@upchuck.cygnus.com>

Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   In message < 19990915011710.B25121@relay.nuxi.com >you write:
>   > There are no GCC headers in my base system.  We've never needed them, and
>   > there are copyright issues anyway.
> What copyright issues?

There is no explicit license/copyright statement at the top of
stddef.h or stdarg.h or whatever.  Someone could easily have been
misled into thinking that they were GPLed and would infect programs.

We should probably put something like the libstdc++ "special
exception" paragraph at the top.

zw

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, rittle@rsch.comm.mot.com, morganw@engr.sc.edu,
	rth@cygnus.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199909201624.JAA16030@zack.bitmover.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990930180200._bYQjlRXb5qnDsOXx48agD6STZNkf32JbJYQkPBAjak@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <686.937827079@upchuck.cygnus.com>

Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   In message < 19990915011710.B25121@relay.nuxi.com >you write:
>   > There are no GCC headers in my base system.  We've never needed them, and
>   > there are copyright issues anyway.
> What copyright issues?

There is no explicit license/copyright statement at the top of
stddef.h or stdarg.h or whatever.  Someone could easily have been
misled into thinking that they were GPLed and would infect programs.

We should probably put something like the libstdc++ "special
exception" paragraph at the top.

zw

  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-20  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-14 19:32 Wes Morgan
1999-09-14 20:08 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-15  2:00   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02     ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02   ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-14 22:34 ` Loren James Rittle
1999-09-14 23:00   ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-14 23:14     ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  0:25       ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15  0:56         ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  1:21           ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-15  1:40             ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  2:23               ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-15  3:11                 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  3:52                   ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02                     ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02                   ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-20  3:58               ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02               ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02             ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02           ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  1:17         ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  9:23           ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15 10:24             ` David O'Brien
1999-09-16 14:48               ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-30 18:02               ` David O'Brien
1999-09-20  4:20             ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-21  6:33               ` The USER_H issue Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02               ` FreeBSD 4.0 Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02             ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20  4:34           ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-20  9:26             ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
1999-09-20  9:55               ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-20 10:17                 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 10:38                   ` Richard Earnshaw
1999-09-20 11:02                     ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02                       ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 11:39                     ` Horst von Brand
1999-09-20 11:49                       ` Chris G. Demetriou
1999-09-30 18:02                         ` Chris G. Demetriou
1999-09-30 18:02                       ` Horst von Brand
1999-09-30 18:02                     ` Richard Earnshaw
1999-09-23  8:51                   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-23  9:13                     ` Pending Projects Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02                       ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02                     ` FreeBSD 4.0 Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02                   ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02               ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02             ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02           ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02         ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15  2:00       ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-15  2:25         ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  2:33           ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02             ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02           ` David O'Brien
     [not found]         ` <37DFAD27.3E6A25E3@datadesign.com>
     [not found]           ` <199909152042.PAA29374@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
1999-09-15 14:26             ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-15 17:10               ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-16  1:46                 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-16  6:57                   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-16  7:41                     ` Marc Espie
1999-09-16  7:55                       ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02                         ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02                       ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02                     ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02                   ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02                 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02               ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02         ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02       ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15  1:59     ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02       ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02     ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15  7:42   ` Wes Morgan
1999-09-30 18:02     ` Wes Morgan
1999-09-30 18:02   ` Loren James Rittle
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Wes Morgan
1999-09-16 12:42 Mike Stump
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Mike Stump
1999-09-16 13:13 Mike Stump
1999-09-16 13:36 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-16 13:54   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02     ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02   ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Mike Stump
1999-09-20 13:43 Mike Stump
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Mike Stump
2000-06-08 12:42 Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges David O'Brien
2000-06-08 15:18 ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-06-09  8:30 ` David Edelsohn
2000-06-09  8:51   ` David O'Brien
2000-06-09  9:13     ` Nick Burrett
2000-06-09  9:21       ` David O'Brien
2000-06-11  6:38       ` Marc Espie
2001-05-02 18:21 [PATCH] rs6000.c ELF bits inclusion David O'Brien
2001-05-02 20:07 ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-02 20:32   ` David O'Brien
2001-05-02 20:52     ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-03  0:39       ` David O'Brien
2001-05-03 13:17 ` David O'Brien
2001-05-03 16:04   ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-03 19:11     ` David O'Brien

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