Re: m68k-elf support

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19980910174643.2252.qmail@hotmail.com>you write:
  > First, I don't subscribe to this list, so please Cc: me on any replies.
  > 
  > As I've brought up on the egcs list, I've got some patches for adding 
  > m68k-elf support to gcc-2.7.2.2; I would like to see it supported in 
  > egcs, but the legalities need working out, since the patches aren't 
  > mine: I got them from Mark Phillips <M.S.Phillips@nortel.co.uk>.  From 
  > his email it didn't sound like he considered the patches significant, 
  > since he basically took similar files and modified them; but I'm pretty 
  > naive about copyright issues.
  > 
  > I've included the patch file as an attachment to avoid line wrap 
  > problems, but I've had trouble with attachments in hotmail.  Let me know 
  > if it doesn't get there.  I show it as 7551 bytes; the last lines should 
  > be:
  > 
  >         m68k-*-lynxos*)
  >                 if [ x$gas = xyes ]
  >                 then
  > 
  > It's also available at:
  > http://home.att.net/~jabberwock82/crossgcc/crossgcc-gcc-2.7.2.2_local_elf.p
  > atch
OK.  I took at look at them.  They are significant enough to require
a copyright assignment.  So we can't include them in egcs at the
current time.

Mark, would it be possible to get you assign these changes to the FSF
and have Nortel disclaim any rights to the changes?  It's a really
simple process, you can even get the forms on the web.

jeff