Re: [gnugo-devel] Go as SPEC benchmark?

[Arend Bayer]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Gunnar Farneback wrote:

> > Submitter hereby grants Sponsor a perpetual, non-exclusive license to
> > copy, modify, display, and sub-license the entry without geographical
> > limitations or further compensation to Submitter of any kind, provided
> > that Sponser's sole use of the entry will be for the purposes of
> > inclusion of the entry in Sponser's CPU benchmark suite.
>
> This is actually potentially problematic. The requirements don't
> necessarily sound compatible with GPL, but on the other hand they may
> be flexible enough to accept GPL instead.

I am not 100% entirely sure, but I think GPL has no limitations with
respect to distributing source code?

In any case, I think we need formal consent of FSF as the copyright
holder.

Arend