Re: symbolic debug of loadable modules with kgdb light

Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-01-10T06:40:07Z

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:17:20PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > - This patch is based on http://kgdb.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kgdb/gdb/. I
> > removed garbage as mush as possible.
>
> I tried to have a look at who the authors are. The changes need to be
> assigned to the FSF. I'm not a big specialist in legal matters, but
> I believe that only the author of the changes can do that; someone
> else who knows better about might want to confirm or correct.

Your understanding is correct. There are some other cases, for
instance it is possible to transfer the ownership to some other party
which can then assign it to the FSF, but I wouldn't mess about with
any of the alternatives without legal advice.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery