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Re: [PATCH] Optimize MIPS memcpy
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 11:43 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> If you are contributing code to the GNU C library, then its copyright
> terms must not be changed. Your patch left FSF as the copyright owner
> but changed the terms, which doesn't make sense at all. We cannot
> accept code that has not had its copyright assigned to the FSF. If
> you and your employer have not already done the assignment paperwork,
> we need that first. As the copyright owner, FSF will choose the exact
> copyright terms, which will be the same ones used for the rest of the
> library code.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
Sorry about that. I guess if I had thought it about I would have
realized that just changing the owner to FSF and not changing the
actual notice was the wrong thing to do. I do have a copyright
assignment on file already so that shouldn't be a problem.
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com