On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 04:26:43PM -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:17:43PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > > 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. > > Presumably one could just take the code from the last GPLv2 version of > coreutils, as well... I can't imagine /bin/chmod sees a lot of churn.
I think that even for that, approval is needed (though it should just be a formality, it's not like RMS is going to say no).
