On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:38:51PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:16:33PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Note that this isn't just GPLv2 vs 3 or anything like that, I think we > > > generally need permission when moving code from one project to > > > another. > > > > The chmod parser is actually coming from gnulib, whose sole purpose is > > to be shared among GNU projects. > > > > It is GPLv2. This is not acceptable for gfortran's runtime > library unless one can get permission to add the exception.
If the gfortran team so decides, the SC can ask RMS for the needed permission. But I'm not sure this is an important issue.