need more constant constraints
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Fri Sep 28 06:58:00 GMT 2001
>>>>> Aldy Hernandez writes:
Aldy> yes yes yes. i would love that, but... it turns out that apple is
Aldy> basing their code on motorola's original patch, and they haven't
Aldy> submitted the paperwork for the copyright.
Aldy> motorola has a present and future copyright assignment but only for 68k
Aldy> and 88k. so unless motorola signs off, we can't use the apple/motorola
Aldy> code base.
Your information about the starting point for the work is
completely incorrect. Apple is not using Motorola's original
implementation exactly because of the copyright issue.
David
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