From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2260 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2005 23:47:14 -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 2252 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Oct 2005 23:47:13 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:47:13 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EP7MM-0002cr-Q2; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:47:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:47:00 -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: <20051010234710.GA10033@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: 2005-10/txt/msg00097.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. Andrew has corrected me off-list: new, non-FSF contributions are not acceptable. I entirely support that position. Is this going to be a problem for MIPS? The possible explanation that you provide does not seem credible to me, but I'm not qualified to discuss it; we can refer any issues to the FSF's counsel. [Meanwhile, Eric, when this is settled I intend to approve the code changes; if you feel like reviewing it after the fact, I'm sure MIPS will be able to correct any problems.] -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC