From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24735 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2004 05:27:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24681 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2004 05:27:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bothner.com) (216.102.199.253) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Aug 2004 05:27:50 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([192.168.1.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by bothner.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7V5ZHDh013822 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:35:23 -0700 Message-ID: <41340C4C.7020809@bothner.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:16:00 -0000 From: Per Bothner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Kenner CC: mrs@apple.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Ada policy References: <10408302303.AA01021@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10408302303.AA01021@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg01589.txt.bz2 Richard Kenner wrote: > As I'm sure you know, if you start with copyrighted code and "trim it > down", you still have copyrighted code. Making a non-proprietary > version of a test case involves a lot more work than that. A trimmed-out test case, with comments removed, and identifiers renamed, is still a "derived" work, but presumably many customers would be willing to disclaim copyright interest. Perhaps as part of your bug resolution procedure you could ask "could you please review this simplified test case as to whether we can release it". This does involve some customer education, so it is probably only worthwhile for your bigger customers - i.e. those who submit lots of test cases. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/