>On Wednesday 18 December 2013 10:36:05 Andrew Bennett wrote:
>> Steve Ellcey (cc'd on this email) does have copyright assignment for gdb. 
>> Would you be happy if we used his copyright assignment?  Steve is also
>> happy to submit the patch if you don't want to.
> 
> anyone who has contributed substantially has to have papers to cover them 
> specifically.  if you did it for a company, then that company has to have 
> papers filed (which it seems you did via imgtec).  the fact that Steve has 
> papers in place is irrelevant.
> 
> so if imgtec has papers covering all of its employees, then that should be 
> sufficient here.

> note: i'm not applying these rules because i want to (or even agree with 
> them).  the fsf governs this code base, and their rules are to no longer 
> accept unassigned work.

Thats absolutely fine.  We are currently sorting this out, and we should have 
it done by early next year.

Regards,


Andrew
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