GAS copyright update

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:36:49 -0700
   From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

   Thus I need a stable, dependable Binutils to upgrade the FreeBSD one to.
   And FreeBSD now has IA-64 hardware and thus need IA-64 bits.  Trying to
   pick a date that the CVS trunk is suffient for my needs scares me.
   Especially if it is anything like the GCC CVS tree which is often not
   buildable (even many snapshots are).

   The way FreeBSD handle contributed software is to do vendor imports and
   try like hell to make as little changes to it as possible.  Me taking the
   2.10 release and adding some IA-64 bits from the trunk branch will really
   mess this up.  Especially when I later need to vendor import the 2.10.1
   release.

These two requirements are unfortunately incompatible with respect to
the GNU binutils.  There are long spans of time between releases.  You
can't restrict yourself to public releases and then simultaneously
require the newest code.

The IA-64 support was checked in just a couple of weeks ago.  The
binutils release cycle takes a minimum of a month.

Ian