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

Joel Brobecker
2014-03-10T09:57:25Z

> > >> 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?

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Joel