[RFC] Darwin port (Part 0)

[Stan Shebs]

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