From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4425 invoked by alias); 7 May 2010 19:39:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 4404 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2010 19:39:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nwd2mail11.analog.com (HELO nwd2mail11.analog.com) (137.71.25.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 May 2010 19:39:06 +0000 Received: from nwd2hubcas2.ad.analog.com ([10.64.73.30]) by nwd2mail11.analog.com with ESMTP; 07 May 2010 15:39:04 -0400 Received: from zeus.spd.analog.com (10.64.82.11) by NWD2HUBCAS2.ad.analog.com (10.64.73.30) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.358.0; Fri, 7 May 2010 15:39:03 -0400 Received: from [10.64.173.47] ([10.64.173.47]) by zeus.spd.analog.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o47Jd37K020308; Fri, 7 May 2010 15:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Getz To: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension) Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 19:39:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 CC: "gdb@sourceware.org" , Mike Frysinger , "binutils@sourceware.org" References: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> <201005071424.25228.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <20100507182547.GV8410@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20100507182547.GV8410@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <201005071539.03142.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 On Fri 7 May 2010 14:25, Daniel Jacobowitz pondered: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:24:25PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: > > On Tue 4 May 2010 23:12, Daniel Jacobowitz pondered: > > > Also bits of sim are copyright others besides the FSF. > > > > I didn't think that was possible? > > > > (but - as you state - I do see lots of copyright ARM, Cygnus Solutions, > > Sun Microsystems, European Space Agency, etc in the sim sources). > > > > Doesn't the sim require a copyright assignment to the FSF (like the > > rest of the gdb/binutils does?) > > We'd like it to, but some things were not assigned to the FSF when > they were originally contributed. Beyond that, I don't know the > history. It's easy to remove them now. :) If people want it to be added back - it's easy for them to sign the proper forms. I admit - a little Draconian - but it would get it to where you wanted it to be. Besides - some of the files which are not copyright FSF - aren't released under the "GPL 2 or later"... common/cgen-fpu.h common/cgen-accfp.c common/cgen-fpu.c That needs to be fixed/resolved - doesn't it?