No License on math.h

Joel Sherrill joel@rtems.org
Sat Mar 20 00:19:54 GMT 2021


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:07 PM Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
wrote:

> On 2021-03-19 15:51, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > We noticed there is no copyright or license in math.h. Unfortunately,
> this
> > file has this as the oldest commit:
> > 2000-02-17 Christopher Faylor import newlib-2000-02-17 snapshot
> > And at that time it didn't have a file header either.
> > Any ideas what header should be on it?
>
> The default first licence which applies if no explicit licence is
> specified:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.NEWLIB


We discussed on RTEMS chat that was likely the answer. Would you please add
that? There is no provenance in the git history that this is intended and
not a mistake.

I can think of one case where it turned out to be a mistake by the
submitter.

Thanks

--joel

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