From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11404 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2002 03:00:08 -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 11362 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2002 03:00:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO motgate2.mot.com) (136.182.1.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2002 03:00:06 -0000 Received: [from pobox4.mot.com (pobox4.mot.com [10.64.251.243]) by motgate2.mot.com (motgate2 2.1) with ESMTP id UAA17777; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:00:06 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from postal.somerset.sps.mot.com (postal.somerset.sps.mot.com [163.12.132.5]) by pobox4.mot.com (MOT-pobox4 2.0) with ESMTP id UAA15969; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:00:04 -0700 (MST)] Received: from motorola.com ([163.14.1.64]) by postal.somerset.sps.mot.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g932ufl20476; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:56:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:09:00 -0000 Subject: Re: RFAdvice - a couple of old lost Altivec patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: Zack Weinberg , Dale Johannesen , To: Stan Shebs From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <3D9B7E9B.7050405@apple.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00135.txt.bz2 > The last I remember, it was somewhat confused, but hopefully Kumar sees > this and clarifies for us. Of course, if you take old > easy_vector_constant > bits of interest and simply rewrite them for the current code base, > that > completely finesses the problem. (And if there is no other reasonable > way > to express those old bits, then there is no creativity involved and > thus > no copyright to worry about!) Glad to be of help. We have assigned over the copyright for the AltiVec changes to gcc 2.95.2, gdb, and binutils over to the FSF. If you need any clarification check with the FSF clerks. - kumar