From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9838 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2004 02:09:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9283 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2004 02:09:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dberlin.org) (68.164.203.246) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Nov 2004 02:09:14 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (HELO dberlin.org) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 7581437; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:09:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:35:00 -0000 From: Daniel Berlin To: Mike Stump cc: Biagio Lucini , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gomp@nongnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: OpenMP licensing problem: a solution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200411230916.36569.lucini@phys.ethz.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00875.txt.bz2 On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Mike Stump wrote: > On Nov 23, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Mike Stump wrote: >> In this case, what you've said isn't necessarily or even usually true. > > I wasn't giving general advice of what we might be able to get away with or > what the law might allow for, but rather, a very conservative view that > hopefully doesn't fail to be conservative to keep us and them happy. Sigh. I believe you missed the point I was making, because i didn't bother to actually write it out. :) The point is that you've stated a possible suggestion based upon an assumption of law that may or may not be true (in this case it isn't, at least in the US). The correct thing in these situations is to *always* bump it to a lawyer (in this case, the FSF lawyers), not try to figure out whether a given answer may be acceptable, and if you don't get an acceptable answer, bump it to a lawyer, for two reasons: 1. What is really an acceptable answer based on the law may not be the same as what you think it is :). (While it may turn out often that what a lawyer will accept is a lot more conservative than what you've come up with, this isn't always the case). 2. Even if you had the "lawyers acceptable answer", you aren't the one who can do anything with it, only the FSF/SC (or someone who officially represents GCC) can.