Just a quick comment than Jan-Benedict's opinion is widely shared by the
specification and by the Linux glibc manpage:
DESCRIPTION
The memcpy() function copies n bytes from memory area src to
memory
area dest. The memory areas should not overlap. Use memmove(3)
if the
On 04/25/2010 11:27 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
On 26/04/2010 01:12, Mark Mielke wrote:
The real reason for FSF copyright assignment is control. The FSF wants to
control GCC.
Yes. Specifically, they want to be able to enforce the GPL. Since only the
copyright holder can license code
On 04/25/2010 11:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
On 26/04/2010 04:30, Richard Kenner wrote:
Yes. Specifically, they want to be able to enforce the GPL. Since only the
copyright holder can license code to anyone, whether under GPL or whatever
terms, FSF has to hold the copyright, or it can't sue
On 04/26/2010 12:31 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Mark Mielkem...@mark.mielke.cc writes:
Wouldn't contributing a patch to be read by the person who will be
solving the problem, but without transferring of rights, introduce
risk or liability for the FSF and GCC?
I thought clean room
On 04/26/2010 03:23 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Chris Lattnerclatt...@apple.com writes
w.r.t. hoarding, I'll point out that (in the context of GCC) being
able to enforce copyright is pretty useless IMO. While you can
force someone to release their code, the GPL doesn't force them to
assign
On 04/26/2010 11:11 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
If I have the rights to re-license software, and I re-license the
software, why do I not have permission to enforce these rights?
Because you have the permission to re-DISTRIBUTE (not re-LICENSE)
the software and nothing else.
On 04/26/2010 07:41 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 04/26/2010 11:23 AM, Mark Mielke wrote:
Personally, this whole issue is problematic to me. I really can't see
why I would ever sue somebody for using software that I had declared
free.
Because (a derivative of) it is being made nonfree?
How
Copying David Daney's response to contrast against it:
GCC is a mature piece of software that works really well and it is in a
programming domain which is not as well understood and for people such
as myself, I would be intimidated from the start, to delve in and expect
any contributions I
On 04/23/2010 06:18 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
My personal opinion is that this legal reason is a *huge*
bottleneck against external contributions. In particular, because
you need to deal with it *before* submitting any patch, which,
given the complexity (4MLOC) and growth rate
On 04/23/2010 08:37 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
However, I would believe that most GCC contributors do not actively
check their patch against the US patent system (because I perceive the
US patent system to be very ill w.r.t. software). I confess I don't do
that - it would be a full time
On 04/23/2010 08:47 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Basile Starynkevitchbas...@starynkevitch.net writes:
I also never understood what would happen if I had a brain illness to
the point of submitting illegal patches (I have no idea if such things
could exist; I am supposing today that if I wrote
On 04/25/2010 11:20 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Chris Lattnerclatt...@apple.com wrote:
On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
So, is the copyright disclaimer implicit in the patch submission? Who
defines the conditions?
That web page
On 04/25/2010 05:49 PM, Richard Kenner wrote:
So how much liability is required for somebody to accept in order to be
allowed to contribute to GCC?
This was answered already. It's the same for EVERY software project
(not unique to GCC): if I steal somebody's copyrighted material and
On 04/25/2010 06:27 PM, Richard Kenner wrote:
I couldn't see somebody suing me (my bank account hovers pretty low
most of the time). Companies are not going to sue nobodies such as
myself because there is no money in it. So, in practice, is there a
difference or not?
No, because then the
On 11/26/2009 08:18 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
How, for goodness sake, can pure trailing whitespace changes, which by
necessity you can't even _see_ in an editor (except if you activate modes
that explicitely show them e.g. in different color) clean up code? Have
you looked at the patch or fallout
On 07/23/2009 11:28 PM, graham_k wrote:
Can someone tell me definitively - if I use a ten line GPLed function, say
quicksort, in 500,000 lines of code which I write myself, do I need to GPL
all of my source code and make the ode free for all?
If you want a definitive answer you should
? I'm interested in reading about the
former. I have no interest at all in reading about the latter. :-)
Cheers,
mark
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in the control region) and expect that the store indeed only
happens in that control region. And this expectation is misguided.
If this is correct (condition makes no function calls and no volatiles
are used, then I understand and agree.
Cheers,
mark
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the issue?
Cheers,
mark
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Mark Mielke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
?
I do not understand your position.
Cheers,
mark
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