Re: [PATCH gcc/* 1/2] gcc: copy expected and optional out of rust/utils

Jason Merrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.rust,gmane.comp.gcc.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/18/26 5:19 AM, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Florian Weimer <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Is CC0 acceptable for GCC?  It's not an allowed license for software in
>> Fedora.
> 
> FTR: These files are already in GCC (under gcc/rust/util), I'm merely
> moving them around.
> 
>> |  CC0-1.0, which has a clause that says that it does not license or
>> |  otherwise "affect" patent rights, is no longer allowed, but it
>> |  continues to be allowed-content.
>>
>> <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/>
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should ask the author (Sy Brand) about patent guarantees,
> then.

GNU now discourages using CC0 for software for the same reason, but it 
seems unlikely that there would be any patent risk from an 
implementation of the standard library.

Still, the author might want to consider using a (very) lax permissive 
free software license such as 0BSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain-equivalent_license

Jason
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