From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4910 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2005 13:43:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4568 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Sep 2005 13:43:42 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:43:42 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EEoay-0007Uh-OD; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:43:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:43:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nigel Stephens Cc: Chao-ying Fu , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, echristo@apple.com Subject: Re: [patch ping2] Simulator Supports for MIPS32 DSP ASE Message-ID: <20050912134340.GA28639@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nigel Stephens , Chao-ying Fu , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, echristo@apple.com References: <001501c5b401$143d8430$a914a8c0@MIPS.COM> <20050910035633.GA24152@nevyn.them.org> <432564A1.4040004@mips.com> <20050912125331.GA26666@nevyn.them.org> <4325846F.5090809@mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4325846F.5090809@mips.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:36:47PM +0100, Nigel Stephens wrote: > It does seem to be accepted that the individual machine-specific > directories will continue to contain code with "assorted" copyrights. > Maybe this was felt to be necessary to encourage CPU manufacturers to > contribute code which might have been derived from their own proprietary > simulators, and who therefore wanted to retain copyright in order to > protect their tools from malicious claims. I think it's more a matter of inertia. We already had simulators not copyright the FSF. > >In any case, you're adding new files to a directory in which everything > >is copyright FSF. That doesn't seem like a good choice. The only new > >files are tests, right? > > > > > > There is the new file dsp.igen, which implements the DSP ASE > instructions, and that is quite a significant new piece of code. I see, I missed the new files, since they were attached rather than part of the diff. Most of the MIPS simulator is (C) FSF. But four files have assorted other copyright status, and a number of major files have no listed copyright status at all. So adding a couple files copyright MIPS is not a big deal. Objection withdrawn. If we need to revisit the license terms later, we know where to find you :-) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC