gas 2.34 on MacOS

[Kevan Hashemi]

Dear Alan,

> I doubt that is sufficient, sorry.  See
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

Ah, that is interesting. I think I understand, but in the case of the Binutils code, there is no author named in the sources that I can find.

> If you copy code, I think you need permission from all the authors of
> that code to assign copyright to the FSF.

There are no persons named in the source code. Every file begins with a declaration that copyright is held by the Free Software Foundation, and refers to the GPL. The COPYING file is an FSF copyright notice.

https://opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/cctools-900/as/

> The authors may have assigned copyright to the FSF
> already of course, I don't know.

They appear to have done so. But please correct me if I am wrong.

Best, Kevan

-- 
Kevan Hashemi, Electrical Engineer
Physics Department, Brandeis University
http://www.bndhep.net