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Re: Fingerprinting code

To: law at cygnus dot com
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting code
From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:00:30 -0800
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
References: <19991122073153J.mitchell@codesourcery.com><3518.943290073@upchuck>

>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

    Jeffrey> You would have to take it up with RMS. GCC is GPL'd, the
    Jeffrey> exceptions are its library and some of its header files.
    Jeffrey> It's not at all clear if we can accept any BSD style
    Jeffrey> copyrighted code in gcc.

Some portions of libiberty are BSDified, and that is where Jason
planned to put this code.  

I cannot change the license, for various reasons.  Assuming Jason is
sufficiently motivated, I'll do what I can to help, but I'm not going
to be able to be too proactive.

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Mark Mitchell                   mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC               http://www.codesourcery.com

References:
- Fingerprinting code
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: Fingerprinting code
  - From: Jeffrey A Law

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