Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] on September 05, 2014 6:25 PM: > Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this. A couple of thoughts. > > First, how does this compare to the warnings and manywarnings modules of > Gnulib? ... > Second, from a brief look at the patch it appears that it is derived from > code that other people have written, which would mean we'd need to get > copyright papers from them too.
On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 10:28:18 -0400, "Visser, Dale" <dvis...@ida.org> replied: > It is quite similar to the modules you mention. It is important to note that > here AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL is by default being invoked by the macros that set > compilers for C, C++ or Fortran. From the documentation changes, it is > described how this may be turned off... Excellent! To me, the key is making warnings the *default* in a compiler-independent way, and then letting people turn them off or control them. > My understanding was that all of the code I adapted was already under > projects hosted Gnu, and so the copyright requirements had already been > satisfied. I have given credit in the code comments wherever said code was > adapted. I'm hoping Mr. Blake can speak authoritatively on this, as I am not > an expert on the copyright aspects. I'm not a lawyer, but I know that FSF is a stickler on copyright assignments. FSF has a copyright assignment from Dale Visser's employer, and Dale's code is derived from previous FSF code, so I think all the copyright issues are addressed. So... can this be added? I don't know of any serious objections. --- David A. Wheeler