From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14526 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2005 15:41:25 -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 14517 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Oct 2005 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:41:23 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EMSRM-0006Ad-Eo; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:41:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Paul Gilliam Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Wu Zhou Subject: Re: [RFC] Decimal Floating Point support for GDB (Part 1: patch)(a sidebar) Message-ID: <20051003154120.GA23682@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Gilliam , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Wu Zhou References: <20051002205724.GB31820@nevyn.them.org> <200510030838.25098.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510030838.25098.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 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