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Re: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension)
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:24:25PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> On Tue 4 May 2010 23:12, Daniel Jacobowitz pondered:
> > Also bits of sim are copyright others besides the FSF.
>
> I didn't think that was possible?
>
> (but - as you state - I do see lots of copyright ARM, Cygnus Solutions, Sun
> Microsystems, European Space Agency, etc in the sim sources).
>
> Doesn't the sim require a copyright assignment to the FSF (like the rest of
> the gdb/binutils does?)
We'd like it to, but some things were not assigned to the FSF when
they were originally contributed. Beyond that, I don't know the
history.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery