https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119397
Bug ID: 119397
Summary: missing license file for SunPro covered sources
Product: gcc
Version: 14.2.1
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: libquadmath
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net
Target Milestone: ---
Many sources in libquadmath (and also libgo) contain the following notice:
====================================================
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software is freely granted, provided that this notice
is preserved.
====================================================
However, there is no corresponding COPYING.SunPro. This makes it difficult for
distributions to comply with the license terms, and indeed makes it
questionable whether any distributed binary build of GCC is in compliance
without expending additional effort. While Debian does seem to expend this
effort, at least packages of Red Hat apparently do not.
There should be a COPYING.* for any and all license texts that are required to
be included in binary distributions of any components that are part of the GCC
repository.
