How do we handle the Sun Copyright for derivative works.

Steve Munroe sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Thu Apr 7 21:02:00 GMT 2005


Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote on 04/07/2005 03:24:06 PM:

> > How do we handle the Sun copyright in glibc code when we patch or 
> > copy/modify such code. For example 
> > ./sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_logb.c.
> ...
> 
> What's the nature of the change?  If it's small, then my tendency would 
be
> just not to update the Sun copyright. 

Copy the file to sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu and replace 1 line of code 
with 8 lines of new code.

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center



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