From: "Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez@gmail.com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com>,
"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c33472e0907270328u7b7a4edbo8291ff7afdf5e44c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6D7C4C.4040404@adacore.com>
2009/7/27 Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>:
> a) discussions of licensing issues are off topic on this mailing list
>
> b) you should ignore all such discussions, since they invariablly
> include lots of legal-sounding opinions from people who are not
> lawyers and don't know, and often have significant misconceptions.
>
> c) remember that even lawyers don't know what the exactly implications
> of copyright law are, juries often surprise. So even if you go ask
> a lawyer, you won't get a definitive opinion.
These three points could be included in a standard answer to licensing
questions posted to gcc@. Invariably, all such threads are a waste of
time and bandwidth. Perhaps we can include the standard answer in some
webpage so we can copy+paste or just point to it. A first attempt at:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Licensing
Cheers,
Manuel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-27 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 20:53 Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 1:57 ` Joe Buck
2009-07-26 6:47 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 9:38 ` Arnaud Charlet
2009-07-26 9:51 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 9:56 ` Arnaud Charlet
2009-07-26 10:19 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-26 21:51 ` Joe Buck
2009-07-27 6:10 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 7:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-27 9:35 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 9:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-27 10:07 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 10:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-27 10:28 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez [this message]
2009-07-27 11:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-27 12:19 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2009-07-27 10:38 ` Dave Korn
2009-07-27 12:12 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2009-07-27 12:10 ` Robert Dewar
2009-07-27 14:29 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-28 0:34 ` Russ Allbery
2009-07-28 0:57 ` Joe Buck
2009-07-26 7:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
2009-07-27 21:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
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