Portions of GCC are distributed under the following license:

  ====================================================
  Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
  Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
  software is freely granted, provided that this notice
  is preserved.
  ====================================================

However, this notice does not seem to exist anywhere in binary distributions. I 
suspect the *intent* was similar to a BSD-style license, and my impression is 
that corporate lawyers tend to argue for that interpretation; i.e. "preserved" 
means that the notice is present somewhere in derivative works. Upstream, 
however, seems to feel that the notice is "preserved" because it hasn't been 
removed from the source file, i.e. it is *not* necessary to include the notice 
in binary distributions or other derived works.

If I ship compiled code which includes code under the above license, what are 
my obligations? Do I need to include the above notice? Can I omit it entirely? 
Something else?

(See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353932.)
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