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Re: [RFC] Darwin port (Part 0)

From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:11:35 -0800
Subject: Re: [RFC] Darwin port (Part 0)
References: <B2D49E25-4529-4AA4-9903-7355F09103F1@adacore.com> <49187306.6090201@earthlink.net> <20081110175252.GE5112@adacore.com>

Joel Brobecker wrote:

There is no copyright obstacle that I know of - Apple made a blanket assignment to the FSF for all future GDB changes.
I'm still a bit concerned, primarily because I'm not a lawyer. But does having a blanket assignment for all past and future changes mean that any GDB code they write and put on their website is automatically assigned to the FSF?

That's exactly what the blanket assignment means. In fact one of the goals, going back to the overall Darwin open source effort, was to enable non-Apple people to contribute code to public repositories without being blocked on Apple engineers unavailable due to internal deadlines and such. (Yes, it could also be thought of as exploiting the community :-) , but now it's working to our advantage.)

Stan

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