Re: cp/inc licensing

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

  In message <200005012358.RAA08995@wijiji.santafe.edu>you write:
  >     BTW, I've just noticed that libgcc1.c contains, in addition to this
  >     paragraph, another one that says essentially the same:
  > 
  >      In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
  >      Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the
  >      compiled version of this file with other programs, and to distribute
  >      those programs without any restriction coming from the use of this
  >      file.  (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other
  >      respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and
  >      distribution when not linked into another program.)
  > 
  >     Is this a remnant of an old wording of the license exception, or does
  >     it cover some other aspect I'm missing?
  > 
  > I don't remember what happened here; maybe at some point I wanted to
  > replace the other exception with this, and maybe vice versa.  Could
  > someone look at the old versions of these files to see what happened?
I went as far back as 2/15/1992 and both paragraphs were still in libgcc1.c;
someone would have to dig through older releases to find the history of this
stuff.
jeff