Richard Guenther wrote: > On 3/17/06, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Richard Guenther, would you please add a README to libgcc-math >> explaining that it that the GLIBC code is not part of GCC, as per the >> web page above? Also, please document that all of the GLIBC files are > > I will do so.
Thank you. >> Because RMS has approved the use of GLIBC's software floating-point code >> in GCC's runtime libraries, using GPL + exception, the correct thing for >> Joseph Myers to do with his recent patch is to mark those files as not >> part of GCC, but rather as part of GLIBC, and adjust the copyright >> notice to be GPL + exception. Joseph should also document (in a README >> or similar) that these files are not to be changed, except by import >> from upstream GLIBC. > > Do I understand this correctly that the upstream GLIBC versions of the > files will get their license changed, or will this happen only in the GCC > copy? Only in the GCC copy. I don't understand enough about libgcc-math to know what should happen there; I don't even know what bits of GLIBC you used. RMS has given explicit permission to use GPL + exception for the software floating-point emulation code, but not for any other part of GLIBC. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713
