public inbox for libc-hacker@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com, dgm69@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: How do we handle the Sun Copyright for derivative works.
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504072024.j37KO6C4016839@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steve Munroe's message of  Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:25:37 -0500 <OF34DC79C6.181DCD01-ON86256FDC.00649B0B-86256FDC.00653A0B@us.ibm.com>

> How do we handle the Sun copyright in glibc code when we patch or 
> copy/modify such code. For example 
> ./sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_logb.c.
> 
> 1) Leave the Sun (C) and add 2005 date?

One never does this, AFAIK.  

> 2) Leave the Sun (C) and add the LGPL header with 2005 date?
> 3) ?

What's the nature of the change?  If it's small, then my tendency would be
just not to update the Sun copyright.  

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-07 18:25 Steve Munroe
2005-04-07 20:24 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2005-04-07 21:02   ` Steve Munroe
2005-04-07 21:14     ` Roland McGrath

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200504072024.j37KO6C4016839@magilla.sf.frob.com \
    --to=roland@redhat.com \
    --cc=dgm69@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com \
    --cc=sjmunroe@us.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).