Re: [PATCH 0/4] Nios II port submission

[Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>]

On 03/28/2014 04:40 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri 28 Mar 2014 17:10:49 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
> > > 2014-03-28  Chung-Lin Tang  <cltang@codesourcery.com>
> > >
> > >              Sandra Loosemore  <sandra@codesourcery.com>
> > >              Based on patches from Altera Corporation
> >
> > "Based on patches from Altera Corporation" is inaccurate.  None of the
> > port came from Altera; the bulk of the original (2008/9) port was by
> > Andrew Jenner (bits by me and Nathan Sidwell).
>
> i assume codesourcery long ago sorted out their copyright assignment papers.
> has altera (assuming that that they did have at least a partial hand in the
> work) ?

Altera has a copyright assignment on file with the FSF that at least 
covers their contributions to other components of the Nios II toolchain 
(GCC, GDB, etc).  But, as Joseph already said, the initial GLIBC port 
was the work of Andrew Jenner and others at CodeSourcery ca 2008 and the 
attribution of those patches to Altera is incorrect.  (Altera's original 
Nios II toolchain was bare-metal only.)

-Sandra