From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4686 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2004 17:39:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4672 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2004 17:39:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 13 Sep 2004 17:39:08 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8DHd801026998 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:39:08 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8DHd3r32765; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:39:03 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (vpn83-127.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.127]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8DHd1Np019895; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:39:02 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8DHd1Ks014506; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:39:01 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8DHd0Ix014503; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:39:00 -0300 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: introduce SH 2a simulator References: <412BABA3.7020300@gnu.org> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:39:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <412BABA3.7020300@gnu.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00208.txt.bz2 On Aug 24, 2004, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Can you revise the ChangeLogs as follows: >> Index: include/gdb/ChangeLog >> from Alexandre Oliva >> 2004-02-13 Michael Snyder >> * sim-sh.h: Add new sh2a banked registers. > Write this as > YYYY-MM-DD Michael Snyder .... > Committed by .... > * change. > Rewrite the below as: > YYYY-MM-DD Michael Snyder .... > Committed by ... > * final set of changes > instead of a long winded change history. There's a good reason why I do it the way I posted it. Neither of your suggestions would be correct, copyright-wise. The law in most countries extend the copyright from the time of creation or first publishing, until a certain number of years after that fact, or the last day of that year, or a certain number of years after the author's death, or something along these lines. The relevant point here is that, in several countries, it's important to know, as accurately as possible, the date on which the code was written. This is why I retain the individual ChangeLog entries, with their corresponding dates. Checking the code in at a later time should not automatically extend the period in which the code is covered by copyright. I do agree the format I use to that end is cumbersome, but I don't see that any other format conveys the information that may be necessary in case of a copyright dispute. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}