[llvm-commits] [patch][llvm-gcc] Port -no-canonical-prefixes

[Daniel Berlin]

Chris, to be clear, Simon can't actually give such permission, only I
can (and I did ;P).

Google owns these works under the various employment agreements (it
was work done specifically for Google, on Google time, in the direct
scope of their employment), and I am allowed to authorize Googlers to
release code under whatever license.
As such, Rafael has Google's permission to release this code as GPL2,
regardless of who at Google wrote it.
Since Google owns the code, and not Simon, and Simon isn't authorized
to release code in Google's name, Simon actually can't write something
to the list giving you permission, and if he did, it wouldn't be worth
anything.
;)

Not that i have something against Simon, i love the guy ;)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Chris Lattner<clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Rafael Espindola wrote:
>
>> (now with llvm-commits included)
>>
>> 2009/8/17 Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>:
>>>
>>> On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Rafael Espindola wrote:
>>> Hi Rafael, can you get the author to send an email confirming that it is
>>> ok
>>> with them to license it under GPL2 to this list?  While I believe you, a
>>> court might not :)
>>
>> The patch was written by Simon Baldwin. He works for Google and was
>> OK with us porting the patch. On similar cases
>> before we also got approval from Daniel Berlin to port gcc patches
>> written by Google.
>
> Simon, can you please post something to this list?  I'd like it archived in
> the list for future references, thanks!
>
> -Chris
>