How do we handle the Sun Copyright for derivative works.
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Thu Apr 7 21:14:00 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.
If you are not modifying the old file, but adding a new one, then copy the
Sun copyright and add the normal libc LGPL header as well.
Thanks,
Roland
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