On 21-12-2010 12:11, Frank Ennert wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #9, patch #6951 (project avr-libc): > > As someone interested in using the patch in a project I took it upon me to > check the copyright of the NEWLIB files. > > Unfortunately the situation isn't clear. The time files I checked in NEWLIB > all had a simple statement like > > "Original Author: G. Haley" > > in the code. E.g. > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c?annotate=1.4&cvsroot=src > I didn't check all libc/time files. > > NEWLIB itself points to http://sourceware.org/newlib/COPYING.NEWLIB for > license details. But that file doesn't contain any reference to a "G. Haley". > > Googleing produces a document about NEWLIB http://www.gnuarm.com/pdf/libc.pdf > where a certain Graham Haley is mentioned: > > "'libc' includes software developed by Martin Jackson, Graham Haley and Steve > Chamberlain of Tadpole Technology and released to Cygnus." > > But COPYING.NEWLIB doesn't mention Tadpole or Cygnus. I have no idea what > "released to" means. For me that code is to hot to touch. I guess I have to > write my own time functions. > Thanks for reply, I understand the your point, and I agree with you. If you don't have hurry, I can rewrite the patch to round on the licence troubles. I saw the code and isn't so much complicate to rewrite it.
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