* Andrew Haley wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:05:03AM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:20:35AM CET:
> >> I have a patch (accompanying those other ones on gcc-paches) to fix
> >>
> >>  ; Warnings handled by ecj.
> >> -; FIXME: document them

> >> but I did start off with the help texts from
> >> <http://help.eclipse.org/stable/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/guide/jdt_api_compile.htm>

> >> If not, would you think that it suffices if I reformulate the entries
> >> sufficiently, or do we need to start playing the legal game, if the
> >> situation is to be improved?
> 
> All material in gcc must be assigned the the FSF by the copyright owner.
> A rewrite that didn't derive from the Eclipse work would be OK.

OK.  Hmm, well, the way I read this, it means that I can't write this
patch any more, nor can anyone do it easily who has looked at the above
link.  I mean, how many ways are there to express that some warning
complains about, say, an unused variable?

Sigh.

Thanks,
Ralf

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