Re: [RFC] what should we do about COPYING?

[Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Note that there is code in sim that is v2 or later, copyrighted Andrew
>> Cagney, not FSF.
>>     
>
> I wonder why this code is copyrighted Cagney and not the FSF, since
> I thought that one requirement for pushing to the FSF tree was
> assigning your changes to the FSF. Not sure what to do next...
>   
Back then, simulators in GDB were still somewhat of a novel concept, and 
we waffled about whether to officially consider them part of GDB, or as 
a separate library that happened to be linked in - the simulator could 
always be built as its own program, and GDB could be built without 
simulator. Plus at the time we really really really wanted a PPC 
simulator. :-)
> Regardless, there is a COPYING at the root of the sources, so perhaps
> we can rely on version 2 of the license being available there.
>   
That's good enough for me,  in general people expect that foo/COPYING 
applies to everything in that directory and its subdirs, but not to 
sibling dirs.

Stan