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

Jan Kratochvil
2014-03-10T10:12:55Z

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