https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78352
--- Comment #16 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #13) > If we could get in touch with an actual lawyer to review which laws > specifically are getting in the way here, that could be helpful. I won my > election to the New Hampshire State Legislature so if there's any > legislation I could pass to make it legal to apply those patches here in NH, > I'd love to know how to write it. I assume the issue is that Apple's patches are GPLv2 and GCC is GPLv3+, and also that FSF wants copyright assignments for patches to GCC (which is FSF policy, not law). Passing laws in NH to allow us to ignore the copyright holder's licence terms and relicense them as we want would probably violate international conventions, and would not help in other jurisdictions.
