From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85818 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2017 22:27:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 85802 invoked by uid 89); 13 Feb 2017 22:27:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=FSF, Hx-languages-length:1165, superh, SuperH X-HELO: mail-qt0-f182.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f182.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f182.google.com) (209.85.216.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:27:22 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f182.google.com with SMTP id v23so96519843qtb.0 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:27:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jvEnE+TrAFPVco5nFGZzWjELDVKVs9F+vHp6gFhLXCg=; b=iP53WzCk/ICOaERlR+hBmxOLTPtMacyTDPhJeasp7qhLYymnyAhFR3wOjyZimCKGwP eOap/POabudt8HssbAe9L94IDpfhoJlggIjojnW4KZ6QxqDicUfD5FVht3n+dh8vorwI jE+VXSx8+QPyM0QjhvQ+AdRdbLmvQzI11gpiZJHDphkxvlE5WZqWM01i7mqKoR+FS9L/ t+EkBm2LBVtOeR/c/P4pLI7MffRjE6YlJI6fgrkKcqA9/buLnjalh+tzpyolwd3/xDJM hyrTn1pkcY68ONQruoxLXHG8SC9+tzvOJZG69eQYwJHQHg9gZ8v1WJCPrtOJKozMH85I igPw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39mNB7YG9z0ZSUJZwV2TIr5+tk/Xr00xDvqaWelZDOvtXWVUzz3T47AKGdS0ZFYvfXZ3vW+0ciLB9mbEYw== X-Received: by 10.200.41.73 with SMTP id z9mr23067597qtz.137.1487024840991; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:27:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.12.140.194 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:27:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170210205546.7982-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20170210205546.7982-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> From: Yao Qi Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFC: Add native support for Linux SH To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 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. --=20 Yao (=E9=BD=90=E5=B0=A7)