If I'm right, here are copyright assignments to FSF for the Microchip's contributions for GCC.
Best regards, Francois Poulain [EMAIL PROTECTED]/David/Install/gcc-3.3_with_PIC30_support/gcc-3.3/gcc/config/pic30 $ head pic30.* ==> pic30.c <== /* Subroutines for insn output for Microchip dsPIC30. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by John Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This file is part of GNU CC. GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. ==> pic30.h <== #ifndef _PIC30_H_ #define _PIC30_H_ /* Definitions of target machine for GNU compiler. Copyright (C) 1994, 95-98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Microchip. This file is part of GNU CC. GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ==> pic30.md <== ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;- Machine description for GNU compiler ;;- Microchip dsPIC30 version. ;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Contributed by John Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ;; This file is part of GNU CC. ;; GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify Le dimanche 09 avril 2006 à 05:39 -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise a écrit : > François Poulain wrote: > > > I think so. Microchip have done a modified version of GCC-3.3 with > > DSPICs support, so we have got a heavy good base to work on the > > instruction set, wich is similar for PIC18. DSPIC is a 16 bit CPU, so is > > memory isn't segmented. > > Just as a reminder, even though the Microchip code is covered by the > GPL, code based on it won't be acceptable for inclusion into FSF GCC > unless you can get Microchip to sign a copyright assignment, which seems > unlikely. Any code in FSF GCC needs to be written by someone with a > copyright assignment to FSF, or at least a public domain release. (I'm > not sure on the exact rules here. Someone at the FSF would know exactly.) >
