On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:23:36PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Richard Guenther wrote: > > Do I understand this correctly that the upstream GLIBC versions of the > > files will get their license changed, or will this happen only in the GCC > > copy? > > Only in the GCC copy.
Maybe we should check that question with RMS. After all, RMS is the one who doesn't want us to fork imported code; aren't we talking about forking at least the license? There would be two distinct copies of certain files, differing only in the license text. > I don't understand enough about libgcc-math to know what should happen > there; I don't even know what bits of GLIBC you used. RMS has given > explicit permission to use GPL + exception for the software > floating-point emulation code, but not for any other part of GLIBC. Maybe the answer, then, should be that only the files involved in floating-point emulation should get the new license. But I guess we need to ask what the FSF wants to do here.
