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gas 2.34 on MacOS

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri May 8 00:10:01 GMT 2020 
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:16:10AM -0400, Kevan Hashemi wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> > Do be careful regarding the license terms of any software you copy.
> 
> The source code of the ctools gas on MacOS has the FSF copyright at the top, so believe we can copy snippets directly. Please confirm.

I doubt that is sufficient, sorry.  See
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

If you copy code, I think you need permission from all the authors of
that code to assign copyright to the FSF.  The situation here appears
to be that people took the gas-1.38 sources, modified them, and made
their modifications available under the GPL.  Which is all good, but
it doesn't mean they relinquished their own copyright over their
modifications.  The authors may have assigned copyright to the FSF
already of course, I don't know.

Dealing with legal stuff is a royal pain.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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