From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 875 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2002 16:03:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 868 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 16:03:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 16:03:27 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8BG3Q921648 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:03:24 -0700 Received: from apple.com (vpn-scv-x1-28.apple.com [17.219.193.28]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8BG3Ob20235; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D7F6900.1000907@apple.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:03:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Adam Fedor , Jason Molenda , gdb Subject: Re: Apple's Objective-C language patch References: <3D7D0186.8020103@doc.com> <20020909173318.A50843@molenda.com> <3D7D6762.2010300@doc.com> <3D7D6BB7.30403@ges.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: > Believe it or not, very recently added to my things to do today list > is to get an answer to the question: can a third party take random > Apple/GDB sources and contribute them to the FSF. Yes. The sources are both copyright-assigned and published; doesn't matter who performs the mechanics of pasting the changes from one public repository into another. Also, if there is any remaining doubt, I have personally seen Apple's copyright assignment for GDB and talked about it with our lawyer that specializes in open source issues (who by now has probably spent more time with RMS than anybody else at Apple 1/2 :-) ), and there are no obstacles to incorporating any and all Apple mods into FSF GDB. (I'd actually like to spend more time on the GDB patches, but we have some 260 local patches in GCC, around 40Kloc of code all told, just managing those is a big job...) Stan