From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29901 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2009 14:27:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 29886 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2009 14:27:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:27:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 6988 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2009 14:27:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 20 Dec 2009 14:27:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4B2E3440.7070609@codesourcery.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:27:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Michael Snyder Subject: Re: [RFC] what should we do about COPYING? References: <20091218073249.GC2788@adacore.com> <4B2BBD07.2020408@vmware.com> <200912181743.02168.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20091220122013.GF2788@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20091220122013.GF2788@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00283.txt.bz2 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