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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:47:41 +0100 From: Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk> For those changes to get accepted into the main sources, a copyright assignment is needed. The author of any non-trivial changes has to assign all rights to those changes to the FSF, thus avoiding any confusion about who owns which bits of the compiler. The GPL does not impose any obligations in this area, it is a voluntary step, but in most cases it is worth doing to avoid the merging problems. Just to amplify on Bart's valuable comments, this is just a policy of the FSF, but it's followed pretty strictly. From time to time people offer me pieces of code for GDB that still have somebody else's copyright on them! This would certainly lead to a unpleasant legal imbroglio, if we were to incorporate them in GNU code. So the rule is: no assignment, no incorporation. Stan