From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25626 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2010 16:39:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 25616 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2010 16:39:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.44.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:39:19 +0000 Received: from hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.5]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o5TGdG9o016881 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:39:16 -0700 Received: from pxi3 (pxi3.prod.google.com [10.243.27.3]) by hpaq5.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o5TGdEZT006789 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:39:15 -0700 Received: by pxi3 with SMTP id 3so1354907pxi.27 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.67.35 with SMTP id p35mr8477160wfa.203.1277829554177; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com ([172.22.126.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i19sm4952344rvn.4.2010.06.29.09.39.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: NightStrike Cc: Richard Kenner , burnus@net-b.de, dje.gcc@gmail.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gerald@pfeifer.com, ja_walker@sbcglobal.net, lopezibanez@gmail.com Subject: Re: Patch pinging References: <4C0D5F0E.9030401@redhat.com> <4C0D616D.10809@oracle.com> <4C0D9979.90603@sbcglobal.net> <4C271A9B.4030503@net-b.de> <11006291124.AA07060@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (nightstrike@gmail.com's message of "Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:06:18 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true 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: 2010-06/txt/msg00844.txt.bz2 NightStrike writes: > Maybe there's a way to look at how other projects handle the same > issue, and find a different solution that's more workable for more > people. I don't know what event you are specifically referring to in > the GCC history that created this situation, but I don't think it's > unreasonable to think that there'd be an alternate method of achieving > the same results. I am doing what I can. However, looking at other projects doesn't help very much because most other projects simply don't worry about these issues. That is, for example, why the Linux kernel was vulnerable to the SCO lawsuit (I have heard that they have since adjusted their practices to some extent). The event in the FSF's past was the use of code from Gosling's original Unix version of emacs. The FSF believed that it had received verbal rights to use the code, but when Gosling sold his program to Unipress he denied ever granting that right, and Unipress asked the FSF to stop using their code. Ian