From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22628 invoked by alias); 7 May 2010 18:25:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 22612 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2010 18:25:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 May 2010 18:25:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 26547 invoked from network); 7 May 2010 18:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 7 May 2010 18:25:50 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 18:25:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Robin Getz Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Mike Frysinger , "binutils@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension) Message-ID: <20100507182547.GV8410@caradoc.them.org> References: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> <20100505031217.GA1164@caradoc.them.org> <201005071424.25228.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201005071424.25228.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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/msg00038.txt.bz2 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery