From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1983 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2010 21:09:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 1975 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Sep 2010 21:09:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:09:39 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42738) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtoNI-0000g9-EP for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:09:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtoNE-0007ps-1B for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:09:37 -0400 Received: from mail-out.apple.com ([17.254.13.23]:58751 helo=mail-out4.apple.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtoND-0007pd-TK for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:09:36 -0400 Received: from relay15.apple.com (relay15.apple.com [17.128.113.54]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9804AE24E89; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from da0603a-dhcp38.apple.com (da0603a-dhcp38.apple.com [17.226.35.38]) (using TLS with cipher AES128-SHA (AES128-SHA/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by relay15.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with SMTP id E0.55.26319.C0D498C4; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Chris Lattner In-Reply-To: <4C893514.3020602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:09:00 -0000 Cc: Mike Stump , Nicola Pero , gcc@gnu.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <239130DD-ACDD-4758-B19B-40BA9D2CE4AE@meta-innovation.com> <4C893514.3020602@gmail.com> To: Dave Korn X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (2) 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: 2010-09/txt/msg00131.txt.bz2 On Sep 9, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > *Until and unless* Apple itself submits the code to the FSF, Apple retai= ns > the copyright; which means that nobody else has the right to submit it to= the > FSF. (Unless Apple gives /them/ (the hypothetical third party) an assign= ment > that allows them to sub-assign.... but that sounds even more complicated = to me.) Right, that's why it is reasonable (to me) to assume that stuff in the appl= e branch on the fsf servers are fair game. -Chris