Re: [libiberty copyright assignment audit] cp-demangle.c status

["Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

neroden@twcny.rr.com (Nathanael Nerode) writes:
...
> The change in the copyright statement probably corresponds to a copyright
> assignment by CodeSourcery.  If it does, then presumably all of Alex Samuel's
> previous work is assigned and OK.  (It's also possible that the CodeSourcery
> copyright was an outright error, in which case I'm not sure what to do...)
>
> Three people other than Alex Samuel contributed potentially coprightable work
> to the file prior to the copyright change:  Kaveh Ghazi, Zack Weinberg, and
> Jeff Law.  
>
> I doubt that contributions to something which was not then
> marked as being part of GCC are technically covered under GCC copyright
> assignments or disclaimers.  Jeff Law was at Cygnus at the time, so his
> contribution may (or may not) have been covered by a later Cygnus assignment;
> the others appear to have been private citizens.  ;-)  
>
> Since all four people are current GCC maintainers, I hope that the issue
> of copyright assignments on this file can be cleared up reasonably quickly.

Whatever changes I made to that file way back then (I don't remember
what they were) were made on the assumption that they were covered by
my blanket copyright assignment for GCC.  I doubt I even noticed that
the file was listed as copyright CodeSourcery.

zw