OT: copyright issues (was: Re: D Symbol Demangling)

Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
Thu Apr 20 15:20:00 GMT 2006


Hello Daniel,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 2.  The demangler would need to be contributed to the FSF and licensed
> under the GPL before we could include it with GDB.  That doesn't
> prevent another copy of it from being used under a different license
> elsewhere; but you wouldn't be able to import fixes from one to the
> other, in either direction.

What is the problem with importing fixes from the proprietary copy to
the FSF code if the person has the copyright assignment?

Thanks in advance,
Baurzhan.



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