Re: FYI: Cygnus is no longer (CNI and CYGNUS LOCAL)

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Jim Wilson writes:
 > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > > Usually that's true, but not in this particular case.  Here these
 > > markers delimit changes from the upstream (fdlibm) that were made to
 > > support libgcj.
 > 
 > I see a lot of files here that have Sun Microsystems copyrights.  Code 
 > with Sun copyrights can't be part of gcc.  We need to be careful about 
 > this.  For starters, this should be listed as an upstream package on the 
 > codingconventions.html web page, and we should have a README file saying 
 > that this stuff is not part of gcc, but is included for convenience.
 > 
 > This has been discussed by the steering committee recently, and we 
 > already have sample text for the README file that has been approved by 
 > rms.  I have been meaning to follow up on this, but I've been busy with 
 > other stuff.  I should get to this soon, at which point I can provide 
 > more info.

This Sun code is the same as that in glibc, which is GPL'd FSF code.
libgcj is GPL+exceptions, also FSF code.  Why may not libgcj use this
code if glibc may?

Andrew.