CodeSourcery's licensing of newlib files

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/24/2013 05:06 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius
> <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>wrote:
>
>> On 10/23/2013 10:09 PM, Gregory Fong wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:03 AM, freddie_chopin <freddie_chopin@op.pl>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Can they attach sth like that to newlib's files?
>>>>
>>> Yes, that's permitted under the BSD license.
>>>
>> Correct, but it means their changes can not be applied to sourceware.org's
>> newlib.
>
> If by "they" you mean "SourceWare", then that's incorrect. SourceWare can
> sign appropriate releases and donate their code.
No, I mean CodeSourcery.

CS can add their Licensing to their newlib-fork, but as their changes 
are not BSD compatible they can not be applied to Sourceware's newlib, 
because Sourceware's newlib is supposed to be BSD-compatible.


Ralf