Re: [libiberty copyright assignment audit] cp-demangle.c status

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In message <87n0epryed.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>, "Zack Weinberg" writes:
 >neroden@twcny.rr.com (Nathanael Nerode) writes:
 >...
 >> The change in the copyright statement probably corresponds to a copyright
 >> assignment by CodeSourcery.  If it does, then presumably all of Alex Samuel
 >'s
 >> previous work is assigned and OK.  (It's also possible that the CodeSourcer
 >y
 >> copyright was an outright error, in which case I'm not sure what to do...)
 >>
 >> Three people other than Alex Samuel contributed potentially coprightable wo
 >rk
 >> to the file prior to the copyright change:  Kaveh Ghazi, Zack Weinberg, and
 >> Jeff Law.  
 >>
 >> I doubt that contributions to something which was not then
 >> marked as being part of GCC are technically covered under GCC copyright
 >> assignments or disclaimers.  Jeff Law was at Cygnus at the time, so his
 >> contribution may (or may not) have been covered by a later Cygnus assignmen
 >t;
 >> the others appear to have been private citizens.  ;-)  
 >>
 >> Since all four people are current GCC maintainers, I hope that the issue
 >> of copyright assignments on this file can be cleared up reasonably quickly.
 >
 >Whatever changes I made to that file way back then (I don't remember
 >what they were) were made on the assumption that they were covered by
 >my blanket copyright assignment for GCC.  I doubt I even noticed that
 >the file was listed as copyright CodeSourcery.
My only change to cp-demangle was to have it include sys/types.h  -- totally
insignificant from a copyright standpoint.

Jeff