[ECOS] Re: CPU Ports for eCos
Stan Shebs
shebs@cygnus.com
Wed Apr 28 12:17:00 GMT 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:47:41 +0100
From: Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk>
For those changes to get accepted into the main sources, a copyright
assignment is needed. The author of any non-trivial changes has to
assign all rights to those changes to the FSF, thus avoiding any
confusion about who owns which bits of the compiler. The GPL does not
impose any obligations in this area, it is a voluntary step, but in
most cases it is worth doing to avoid the merging problems.
Just to amplify on Bart's valuable comments, this is just a policy of
the FSF, but it's followed pretty strictly. From time to time people
offer me pieces of code for GDB that still have somebody else's
copyright on them! This would certainly lead to a unpleasant legal
imbroglio, if we were to incorporate them in GNU code. So the rule
is: no assignment, no incorporation.
Stan
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