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Re: GCC Port (gcc backend) for Microchip PICMicro microcontroller
Ok I was wrong. Maybe you could contact John Elliott
(john.elliott@microchip.com), because I 'm not an English native speaker
and I don't understand all the juridic terms. I also think that the
goodness of the question often makes the goodness of the answer.
Best regards,
Francois Poulain
Le dimanche 09 avril 2006 Ã 21:49 -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise a Ãcrit :
> FranÃois Poulain wrote:
>
> > If I'm right, here are copyright assignments to FSF for the Microchip's
> > contributions for GCC.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not good enough. A copyright assignment is a
> formal contract that must be physically signed and sent to the FSF. See
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal> for details.
>
> Since as far as I can tell John Elliot has not attempted to include his
> changes in the official FSF GCC, it is very that he has a copyright
> assignment. Any work based on work by him would require an assignment
> from him also--and most likely his employer, Microchip.
>
> There is an official list somewhere of who has copyright assignments on
> file. Alternately, whatever work he has done were thought to be
> valuable, someone could just email him and ask. :)
>