2009/7/27 Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com>: > a) discussions of licensing issues are off topic on this mailing list > > b) you should ignore all such discussions, since they invariablly > include lots of legal-sounding opinions from people who are not > lawyers and don't know, and often have significant misconceptions. > > c) remember that even lawyers don't know what the exactly implications > of copyright law are, juries often surprise. So even if you go ask > a lawyer, you won't get a definitive opinion.
These three points could be included in a standard answer to licensing questions posted to g...@. Invariably, all such threads are a waste of time and bandwidth. Perhaps we can include the standard answer in some webpage so we can copy+paste or just point to it. A first attempt at: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Licensing Cheers, Manuel.
