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Re: [PATCH] Fix ColdFire support for GCC 3.4 in libgloss


Bernardo Innocenti writes:
 > J. Johnston wrote:
 > 
 > >   I'm afraid I can't accept this change as-is.  The problem is that gcc 
 > > code is under the GPL license and newlib does not accept GPL licensed 
 > > contributions.  If you want to make your own set of macros based on your 
 > > "observations of gcc" or if you were to copy from a BSD-licensed source, 
 > > that would be fine, but to copy the macros (plus/minus comments) 
 > > directly from the gcc code is not.
 > 
 > This isn't a problem: I'm the author of those changes in GCC,
 > and my FSF copyright assignment papers grant me full ownership
 > of my contributions.

Eh?  I was under the impression that all FSF copyright assignments
transfer ownership to the FSF.


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