Re: [Tinycc-devel] incorrect/missing license files

[grischka]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> > > If both of you answer yes, could you commit the change Grischka?
> > Change the FSF header in lib/libtcc1.c?  I'm not sure they would
> > agree.  However it allows being linked into any program anyway.
>
> Why would they have to agree? They are not author of this file. Only the author 
> need to agree to such change, they are the one who decide what license 
> applies. 

And the author is?

    libtcc1.c:148:
    /* most of this code is taken from libgcc2.c from gcc */

> However, as Vincent suggested, it would be even better to put both 
> GPL and BSD copyright notice, thus making the file dual licensed. It's not very 
> useful as the BSD could be relicensed to GPL by doing some change but it 
> doesn't hurt and gives more choice. Of course this only applies to old file, 
> new one would just use BSD.

Since libtcc1.c is part of a library (and tcc doesn't have LTO) I'd
rather suggest to put everything not related to float conversion into
its own file each.

--- grischka

> Best regards,
>
> Thomas