[M3devel] parse.c licensing question, dual?

[Jay K]

Links paste funny.

I'll try again:

1.17

https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/m3cg/parse.c?rev=1.17;content-type=text%2Fplain
vs.

v1.18

https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/m3cg/parse.c?rev=1.18;content-type=text%2Fplain


Tony, you changed from..er...hold on..
that was not really a change.


here vs. 1.12:

https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/m3cg/parse.c?rev=1.12;content-type=text%2Fplain

/* Copyright (C) 1993, Digital Equipment Corporation                         */
/* All rights reserved.                                                      */
/* See the file COPYRIGHT for a full description.                            */


v 1.13:


    Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
    Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
    version.
...

Merge with gcc-core-3.4.5.  This is now the default backend.


in either case, there is a notion of "GPL compatible".

For example the BSD licenses are GPL compatible.
They can be linked with GPL, or such.

And then..there is the question of derivation and ownership.

There is only a few thousand lines here.

The slightly interesting part is the reading of the IR.
The building up of gcc tree's is gcc specific.

 - Jay






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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: rodney.m.bates at acm.org; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] parse.c licensing question, dual?
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:42:51 +0000
>
> Tony changed the license from DEC to FSF here (possibly someone else did in another branch)
>
> <a href="https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/m3cg/parse.c.diff?r1=1.12;r2=1.13" target="_blank" class="newlyinsertedlink">https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/gcc/gcc/m3cg/parse.c.diff?r1=1.12;r2=1.13</a>
>
>
> There is this growth:
>
> jair:~ jay$ wc -l parse.c.current
> 6516 parse.c.current
>
> jair:~ jay$ wc -l parse.c.old
> 4190 parse.c.old
>
> though derivation is still hard to argue with.
>
> - Jay
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> To: rodney.m.bates at acm.org; m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:30:57 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] parse.c licensing question, dual?
>>
>> Some number should be reasonable yes, but I think you exaggerate how much I've done. :)
>> I'll look later.
>>
>> - Jay
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:26:39 -0500
>>> From: rodney_bates at lcwb.coop
>>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] parse.c licensing question, dual?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/27/2016 03:19 PM, Jay K wrote:
>>>> Thank you. I was hoping that. So parse.c isn't stuck if it had an answer, and m3-def isn't stuck because I wrote it (possibly derived from DEC -- it is closely related to the rest of m3cg).
>>>>
>>>> But parse.c might be ownerless and stuck?
>>>
>>> Isn't there some law that if more than 25% of a work is changed, it ceases
>>> to be a derived work but becomes a new work by the changer? If so, I would
>>> guess the current parse.c would meet this criterion, and I think Jay would
>>> own it, since I think he has done the majority of the changes.
>>>
>>> IANAL.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Jay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:17:38 +0200
>>>>> From: lemming at henning-thielemann.de
>>>>> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>>>>> CC: hosking at purdue.edu; m3devel at elegosoft.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] parse.c licensing question, dual?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Jay K wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can the owner relicense parse.c,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, the owner can always relicense.
>>>>>
>>>>>> or it is stuck with GPL because it links to gcc?
>>>>>
>>>>> He can choose any license that is compatible with GPL.
>>>>
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