Re: GDB w/ Mac OS cores: "no core file handler recognizes format"

Klee Dienes
2014-01-31T13:34:13Z

I don’t work at Apple and don’t speak for them. I can tell you that I was the person responsible for the initial copyright assignment from Apple for GDB, and that until I left Apple in 2005 it was my explicit job to try to merge code back to the FSF codebase under copyright assignment (I was not very successful, but that’s a separate issue).

I don’t have any of my records from before 2007, unfortunately, so it would take a bit of archaeology to say any more than that. I don’t think we ever succeeded in pushing a branch to sourceware. Since we were releasing via opensource.apple.com fairly often (and had live CVS available if I remember right), there wasn’t much need to push elsewhere.

On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:58 AM, Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu> wrote:
>> There should still be a copyright assignment on file for the time period it was written
>
> I think we need to be wary that copyright on file for the time period
> may not mean that the copyright for that specific piece of code was
> assigned, and note apples unwillingness to do so in the past.
>
> I don't suppose it exists in any branch, or was at least submitted for
> inclusion where it can be had from the archives?
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-09/msg00136.html