From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0M7uV426420 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:56:31 -0800 Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.5] (may be forged)) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0M7uTP26407 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:56:29 -0800 Received: from myware.mynet (fiendish.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.231.146]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12544; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0M6uH326612; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:56:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: Machida Hiroyuki Cc: kevink@mips.com, hjl@lucon.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: patches for test-and-set without ll/sc (Re: thread-ready ABIs) References: <20020120221607T.machida@sm.sony.co.jp> <20020122152744C.machida@sm.sony.co.jp> <20020122154629F.machida@sm.sony.co.jp> Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 21 Jan 2002 22:56:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020122154629F.machida@sm.sony.co.jp> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Machida Hiroyuki writes: > Please let us why. Acctually, glibc includes codes copyrighted by > SUN and gcc includes codes copryrighed by HP and SGI. It contains public domain code and the rest of the code is assigned. If there is a header saying that somebody from a company wrote the code this is mentioned but the person also has a document signed. If you cannot live with this the code cannot be accepted. Any further discussion you have to have with the legal people at the FSF. I've no time for this. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------