Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> > diff -upr gdb.orig/thread.c gdb/thread.c
> > --- gdb.orig/thread.c Mon Jan 29 17:06:26 2001
> > +++ gdb/thread.c      Wed Feb 28 15:03:34 2001
> > @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
> >  /* Multi-process/thread control for GDB, the GNU debugger.
> > -   Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
> > -
> > -   Contributed by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.  Los Gatos, CA.
> > +   Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
> > +   2000, 2001
> >     Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > +   Contributed by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.  Los Gatos, CA.
> > +
> 
> I request that the head maintainer verify the copyright assignment
> for gdb/thread.c.

I can add a little historical note here - the code was basically
written by Stu Grossman, with minimal input from Lynx.  I doubt
that anyone would find a Lynx assignment to the FSF directly,
although it's possible.  Instead, the Lynx contract with Cygnus
would have had a clause assigning copyright to Cygnus, and then
Cygnus's blanket assignment would take effect when the code was
added to GDB.  Assuming the big file cabinet of old contracts is
still over there in Sunnyvale, it shouldn't be too hard to dig
in and find it, although IMHO it's only interesting to historians.

Incidentally, the "1986, 1987, 1988" is almost certainly a misleading
result of cut-n-paste; none of the thread code existed before 1993.

Stan