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Re: [RFC] what should we do about COPYING?
Joel Brobecker wrote:
Note that there is code in sim that is v2 or later, copyrighted Andrew
Cagney, not FSF.
I wonder why this code is copyrighted Cagney and not the FSF, since
I thought that one requirement for pushing to the FSF tree was
assigning your changes to the FSF. Not sure what to do next...
Back then, simulators in GDB were still somewhat of a novel concept, and
we waffled about whether to officially consider them part of GDB, or as
a separate library that happened to be linked in - the simulator could
always be built as its own program, and GDB could be built without
simulator. Plus at the time we really really really wanted a PPC
simulator. :-)
Regardless, there is a COPYING at the root of the sources, so perhaps
we can rely on version 2 of the license being available there.
That's good enough for me, in general people expect that foo/COPYING
applies to everything in that directory and its subdirs, but not to
sibling dirs.
Stan