VIA C3-2 support.

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> As before with Jeff, I don't have a copyright assignment on file,
>> but I'm prepared to offer this patch into public domain and let
>> anyone do what they like with it.
> You can't, as your code is infected by GPL.  You really need assignment
> for anything nontrivial (perhaps this patch is trivial)

I'm not a lawyer, but this is most surely not correct.  Of course, Dave
cannot modify GCC and then put that in the public domain, but surely he
can write a patch and put that very patch in the public domain.

In fact, the FSF has a form of it's own, for precisely this purpose;
it is called request-disclaim.changes and I have included it at the
end of this message.

Gerald


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