On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:07:10PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote: > libgfortran calls fork/exec /bin/chmod to parse argument to chmod. > Is that OK to borrow code from coreutils which implements /bin/chmod > to properly implement chmod? coreutils is under GPLv3 while libgfortran > is under GPLv2 + exception. Is that possible to get permission from > the FSF to borrow code from coreutils?
If the consensus of the Fortran maintainers is that this is the right thing to do, the SC can ask the FSF for permission.
