That file is introduced by me and it's derived from another SGI source file.
But at that time I don't pay attention to the license issue. I will submit a
patch to switch the license back to GPLv2.
2010/12/2 Gilmore, Doug <doug.gilm...@amd.com>
> The old license on intrn_entry.def was BSD, which with my patch is
> would be changed to GPLv2. Both are compatible with Open64.
>
> My point of the change is that intrn_entry.def could be considered to
> be a derived work, and if so, the copyright notices and license should
> reflect that of the previous work. Note the license on the previous
> work was GPLv2.
>
> I don't think there are any licensing issues with the patch that
> implements the fix. The issue is whether intrn_entry.def is a derived
> work or not. If people are comfortable in saying that it was not a
> derived work, which gave us the freedom at the time of commit r1764 to
> set the license on to intrn_entry.def to BSD, then no change of
> license is needed.
>
> I attached the patch associated with commit r1764. Keep in mind
> that the patch is against the tree branches/merge08, where
> the PSC 3.2 (and others) merge was done.
>
> I added another patch to the bug report with no license change, but
> I did add a copyright notice for the change that I just added.
>
> If people think that my interpretation of copyright law is too
> strict then we can go ahead and apply that patch instead.
>
> Doug
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sun Chan [mailto:sun.c...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:46 PM
> > To: Gilmore, Doug
> > Cc: open64-devel
> > Subject: Re: [Open64-devel] review request for a fix to bug 628,
> > backend assertion with popcount builtin
> >
> > I suggest someone check the license compatibility (or whatever) before
> > the checkin. This is likely beyond gatekeeper capability
> > Sun
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Gilmore, Doug <doug.gilm...@amd.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Sun Chan [mailto:sun.c...@gmail.com]
> > >> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:22 PM
> > >> To: Gilmore, Doug
> > >> Cc: open64-devel
> > >> Subject: Re: [Open64-devel] review request for a fix to bug 628,
> > >> backend assertion with popcount builtin
> > >>
> > >> This fix would have been in the merge I coordinated but never
> > "checked
> > >> in".
> > > Right.
> > >> I assume there is no copy right issues since it is before the
> > >> change to gpl3.0
> > >> Sun
> > > Per the last comment that I added to the bug, what is unusual with
> > this patch
> > > is that license on one of the files was changed from BSD to GPLv2,
> > since
> > > it is safer to consider this file addition as a derived work.
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Gilmore, Doug <doug.gilm...@amd.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Again, the bug fix is attached to the patch.
> > >> >
> > >> > https://bugs.open64.net/show_bug.cgi?id=628
> > >> >
> > >> > Could someone take a look at this when they have the chance?
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> >
> > >> > Doug
> > >> >
> > >> >
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