coverage license information

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Would it make sense to release the header file under a permissive
> license or even public domain?
>
> The information there is just ABI, it's dubious that it is copyrightable
> at all.  If two colleagues of Frediano's did a clean-room reverse
> engineering, the result would really be indistiguishable from the original.

I agree that the information in gcov-io.h is almost certainly uncopyrightable.

But since it's under the GCC Runtime Library Exception, which applies
to approximately every program compiled by GCC, I don't think it makes
much difference one way or another.  I'm not opposed to asking the FSF
to relicense the file, I just don't think it matters.

Ian