On 13 Feb 2017 22:27, Yao Qi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > With this post, I would like to ask for some feedback on how to
> > proceed with this patch. The original author of the patch is
> > Takashi Yoshii who wrote it while working at Renesas Electronics
> > in Japan.
> >
> > Back in 2011, one of the major show-stoppers why the patch was
> > not merged was apparently the missing FSF copyright assignment
> > by the author [2]. However, since Yoshii-san was working for
> > Renesas back then, I think the copyright assignment would have
> > to be signed by them and not him personally. And since Renesas
> > has already contributed various SuperH code to various FSF
> > projects like gcc and binutils, I'd assume that the necessary
> > FSF copyright assignment has already been signed.
> 
> As far as I can see, the missing copyright assignment is still an issue.
> Renesas does contribute to various FSF projects, and they do have
> copy right assignments for these projects, like gcc, binutils and glibc.
> However, they don't have a copy right assignment for gdb for the author
> Yoshii-san.

if the work is done for a company, and that company has assignment
in place, the individual authors don't need papers.
-mike