Re: GCC 3.0 released

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <871yohih9w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says...
>
>Yes, that's true.  Shall we guess what is causing problems?  Legal
>matters (i.e. the copyright assignment to the FSF)?

That can take a while. I'm trying to go through the process with the SETI@Home
Service, and its been incredibly slow going. I wouldn't be suprised if the
SETI@Home project isn't over before it happens. I think the GNU project doesn't
have that many people to deal with this stuff. Perhaps if I go buy some GNU
T-shirts they'll get enough of a financial kick to get around to it. :-)

But I thought that the Gnat copyrights had been assigned since day 1. I don't
have the source distribution handy, but for the WinNT version I have, a cursory
check through the source files shows the following copyright holders:
Intermetrics (Win32 bindings, *not* GPLed)
Florida State University (GNARL stuff)
ACT (all the gnat.* packages, except gnat.ads)
FSF (everything else)

So it does look like most of the stuff in there is already FSF, and I'd guess
(just my guess) the rest isn't FSF *on purpose*, and will probably remain that
way.

Which begs the question (and this is just genuine curiosity), what exactly is
going into the official baseline when it gets merged? Will it just be the FSF
code? (probably not) Just the GPL'ed code? I guess we'll see when its merged.

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