Re: [RFC] Decimal Floating Point support for GDB (Part 1: patch)(a sidebar)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Paul Gilliam wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>  (an > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:42:36PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, and in a couple of places your code says:
> > 
> > +    Contributed by Cygnus Support, using pieces from other GDB modules.
> > 
> > which is not true since you're contributing it :-)
> > 
> Daniel,
> 
> To what extreems (or not) should one try to maintain the provinounce
> of GPL-ed source?
> 
> In this case, -*something*- in the code Wu was contributing must have
> come from Cygnus.

I sincerely doubt it since it's based on IBM-originated code.  I
presume he only copied the copyright notice.

> 
> How much of a 'back trail' should one try to maintain?
> 
> Is this spelled out anywhere or is it "folk wisdom" one obtains by
> reading all these mailing lists?
> 
> This is not a major question, but one I have come up against severial
> times before.

If you're copying a file that contains a contributed notice, then you
ought to leave it.  If you're just borrowing little bits from it, then
generally don't bother.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC