On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:04:09PM +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > > <ignore> > I can't say I really care about Andy's alleged copyright infringement. > (My general point on matters like this is litigate or shut up. We're > all here to get work done and licensing (licensing trolls and I don't > mean you) is the single biggest detractor from open source progress I > know of)
<adage> "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me" </adage> I think some of us are trying to avoid the latter half of the adage. > Andy started the project and at the time of the fork still was the > majority contributor. Perhaps, you need to read the Copyright notices in the trans-*.[ch] files. It was Paul Brook and Steven Bosscher who initially wrote the majority of the code that hooked Andy's parser up to the GCC middle and backend. cd gcc/fortran head trans-*.[ch] | grep -A1 Contribu | grep -v "\-\-" Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Canqun Yang <can...@nudt.edu.cn> Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> Contributed by Paul Brook Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> Contributed by Paul Brook <p...@nowt.org> and Steven Bosscher <s.bossc...@student.tudelft.nl> > Cut the guy some slack for having a bit of ego > and wanting to maintain control. It's been how many years now and still > too much hard feelings. I'm biased but it's based on a positive working > relationship. > </ignore> (deleted rant) > If you have concerns about PathScale email me privately. My intention > is to vet the codebase. Vetting g95 is relatively easy, but there's a > chasm between it and gfortran I'm trying to map. If that's successful > I'd like to figure out if/how PathScale can contribute. if we continue > to get much more negatively this early on (I don't care the reason). > I'll just forget the whole thing. All of the code in gfortran is assigned to the FSF. Have you approached the FSF with a request to dual licenses the code? There are on the order of 100 contributors listed in the gcc/fortran/ChangeLog* files. Are you asking each individual to re-license his/her contribution to gfortran? -- Steve
