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From: Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>
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Michael Snyder wrote:
> Adam Fedor wrote:
> 
>>Michael Snyder wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>I do wish I had some names for their actual authors, though...
>>>>
>>Well I compared the Apple patch with the one you sent out long, long
>>ago, and there were a lot of similarities. If that helps...
> 
> 
> 
> I was beginning to suspect that.  This code looks VERY familiar.  ;-)
> 
> So what's its Copyright status?  Did you get an assignment from Apple?

Apple should have a blanket copyright assignment to the FSF for this 
code (as well as future code). There was a discussion on the gdb list 
about this recently. Andrew should be able to confirm the status.