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Re: Changed IA64 ABI demangler license
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:16:14 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Changed IA64 ABI demangler license
Gerald Pfeifer writes:
> For those you might have missed it on gcc-patches (and as we want to
> announce relevant changes on the gcc list):
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > The FSF has agreed to make the IA64 ABI demangler available under the
> > same license as libgcc.
We actually use this demangler on all platforms, not just IA64, so Mark's
wording is misleading.
> > This patch updates the copyright notice on cp-demangle.c, but does not
> > actually incorporate the demangler in libgcc. Applied on the mainline
> > and on the branch.
>
> (Should we even add that to the announcements on our web page?)
We should be careful in the wording: RMS didn't agree to change the
license retroactively on all versions that have already been shipped (he
didn't refuse either, it just didn't come up), so we wouldn't want people
to get confused. The license change applies to the current cp-demangle.c
but not to older versions.