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Re: RFC: Add native support for Linux SH
- From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:27:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: Add native support for Linux SH
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- References: <20170210205546.7982-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> With this post, I would like to ask for some feedback on how to
> proceed with this patch. The original author of the patch is
> Takashi Yoshii who wrote it while working at Renesas Electronics
> in Japan.
>
> Back in 2011, one of the major show-stoppers why the patch was
> not merged was apparently the missing FSF copyright assignment
> by the author [2]. However, since Yoshii-san was working for
> Renesas back then, I think the copyright assignment would have
> to be signed by them and not him personally. And since Renesas
> has already contributed various SuperH code to various FSF
> projects like gcc and binutils, I'd assume that the necessary
> FSF copyright assignment has already been signed.
>
As far as I can see, the missing copyright assignment is still an issue.
Renesas does contribute to various FSF projects, and they do have
copy right assignments for these projects, like gcc, binutils and glibc.
However, they don't have a copy right assignment for gdb for the author
Yoshii-san.
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Yao (齐尧)