Copyright assignments and java/libgcj.

Thu Jul 28 22:33:00 GMT 2005

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Recently we experienced the Big-Classpath-Merge. Now most of the source 
> code for libgcj is maintained in the Classpath project and periodically 
> copied into the GCC CVS repository.

Cool; does this mean that the amount of code built by a gcc bootstrap
will decrease? Or will the combined libgjc/Classpath code still be all
included in the gcc distribution.
> The consensus from the gcj IRC seems to be that a copyright assignment 
> for Classpath is now necessary for contributions to the parts of libgcj 
> that are maintained by Classpath. This also means that said patches 
> should be checked into Classpath's CVS instead of GCC's

The authority on such issues is with the FSF, of course.