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Re: [patchv3 0/8] Validate binary before use
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Aleksandar Ristovski <ARistovski at qnx dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:57:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patchv3 0/8] Validate binary before use
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- References: <20140227213229 dot GA21121 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <5310933E dot 8000601 at redhat dot com> <20140302183659 dot GA11910 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <53148332 dot 7010600 at redhat dot com> <20140308173316 dot GA18331 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net>
> > >> These need to be 2013-2014.
> > >
> > > Why? It counts since the first post to gdb-patches?
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00859.html
>
> Do you mean this part?
> # 1. We start claiming copyright the year the file as committed
> # to a medium (hard drive), not the year it was published.
>
> Does "medium" mean any disk even unrelated to the GDB project?
> Or does "medium" mean "any medium used for GDB development"?
Sorry, Jan - I don't know the answer to Jan's question, whether
there is a distinction between the two situations. It doesn't seem
like we need the answer in the context of that patch, but perhaps
we could ask copyright-clerk if we want to satisfy our curiosity?
--
Joel