Re: need more constant constraints

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 22:53, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >       First, before you do any work on Altivec, please coordinate with
> > Apple's GCC group and with me.  It sounds like you are duplicating work
> > already being developed by others.
> 
> yes yes yes.  i would love that, but... it turns out that apple is
> basing their code on motorola's original patch, and they haven't
> submitted the paperwork for the copyright.
> 
> motorola has a present and future copyright assignment but only for 68k
> and 88k.  so unless motorola signs off, we can't use the apple/motorola
> code base.

This contradicts http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg01007.html,
which Kumar Gala sent out after getting a copy of Motorola's
actual assignment and looking at it.

Given that Motorola's assignment has been repeatedly cast into doubt
by non-Motorola people (myself included), I'd say that at this point
no statement from Motorola will be sufficient, and we're going to
need an explicit ruling by the FSF.  The situation is ridiculous, is
interfering with progress, and I'd like us to put an end to it once
and for all.

Stan