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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: No License on math.h
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:36:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFiPUiqh3X9NCvYJ@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF9ehCXSHNei4y+UYDgvx3tutQ7AdXwYMf4uMegfnYi0wntbgA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 19 19:19, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:07 PM Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2021-03-19 15:51, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > We noticed there is no copyright or license in math.h. Unfortunately,
> > this
> > > file has this as the oldest commit:
> > > 2000-02-17 Christopher Faylor import newlib-2000-02-17 snapshot
> > > And at that time it didn't have a file header either.
> > > Any ideas what header should be on it?
> >
> > The default first licence which applies if no explicit licence is
> > specified:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.NEWLIB
> 
> 
> We discussed on RTEMS chat that was likely the answer. Would you please add
> that? There is no provenance in the git history that this is intended and
> not a mistake.
> 
> I can think of one case where it turned out to be a mistake by the
> submitter.

Not in this case.  The file is as old as the repo itself and the import
was done from the internal Cygnus repo into the new public CVS repo.
COPYING.NEWLIB is pretty explicit here.


Corinna


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-19 21:51 Joel Sherrill
2021-03-20  0:07 ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-20  0:19   ` Joel Sherrill
2021-03-22 12:36     ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-03-22 13:30       ` Joel Sherrill
2021-03-22 16:09         ` Corinna Vinschen

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