Re: [patchv3 0/8] Validate binary before use

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:57:19 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > >> These need to be 2013-2014.
> > > > 
> > > > Why?  It counts since the first post to gdb-patches?
> > > 
> > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00859.html
> > 
> > Do you mean this part?
> > #  1. We start claiming copyright the year the file as committed
> > #     to a medium (hard drive), not the year it was published.
> > 
> > Does "medium" mean any disk even unrelated to the GDB project?
> > Or does "medium" mean "any medium used for GDB development"?
> 
> Sorry, Jan - I don't know the answer to Jan's question, whether
> there is a distinction between the two situations. It doesn't seem
> like we need the answer in the context of that patch, but perhaps
> we could ask copyright-clerk if we want to satisfy our curiosity?

OK, so we do not know whether copyright year is affected by "any disk even
unrelated to the GDB project".

But gdb-patches mailing list was considered as a "medium (hard drive)"
mentioned by the copyright-clerk, IIUC.


Thanks,
Jan