From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5140 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2014 18:18:55 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 5130 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jan 2014 18:18:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net Received: from elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.63) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:18:53 +0000 Received: from [68.96.200.16] (helo=macbook2.local) by elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Ig0-0006eI-25 for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:18:52 -0500 Message-ID: <52EBE906.9010701@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:18:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB w/ Mac OS cores: "no core file handler recognizes format" References: <1391120555.28742.307.camel@pdsdesk> <20140131020928.GY9810@adacore.com> <1C03BC66-B7A2-4219-BCF9-C74288F9348E@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940da9d6294f1b840b14af077b2c2107e4e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 On 1/30/14 11:58 PM, Matt Rice wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Klee Dienes wrote: (Hi Klee!_ >> 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. No, Apple had a blanket assignment to the FSF for all of their GNU work. Presumably it's still in effect, but it's not something that could be rescinded retroactively, so old code unaffected in any case. (Nostalgia time - we actually had regular internal meetings on open-source activities, and an in-house lawyer specifically assigned to be the expert on legal aspects.) Stan stan@codesourcery.com