Re: [RFC] Patch for QUIT macro support

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > > But this is really Apple's change isn't it?  Even the comments
 > > (minus history) are Apple's.
 > 
 > Um, yes.  I'd forgotten that I snagged these two chunks out of the
 > attachment posted to the message at:
 > 
 >   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-10/msg00146.html
 > 
 > The comments got reworked slightly but they definitely derived from
 > that patch.
 > 
 > My sincere apologies for not giving you proper attribution, or the
 > original author if that's not you.

It's probably Jim Ingham's change but we won't know unless Apple tell us.
AFAIK Apple have made a general copyright assignment of all their work on
GDB to FSF.  When I used Apple's changes (2007-02-03) I just prefixed my
ChangeLog entry with:

	    Based on work by Apple Computer, Inc.

 > If you're still doing work in this area and the patch that got checked
 > in interferes with that, we can simply revert or modify it as appropriate.

It's fine with me.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob