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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Nios II port submission
- From: Chung-Lin Tang <chunglin_tang at mentor dot com>
- To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Chung-Lin Tang <cltang at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:11:31 +0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Nios II port submission
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On 14/3/29 6:48 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> On 03/28/2014 04:40 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Fri 28 Mar 2014 17:10:49 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
>>>> 2014-03-28 Chung-Lin Tang <cltang@codesourcery.com>
>>>>
>>>> Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
>>>> Based on patches from Altera Corporation
>>>
>>> "Based on patches from Altera Corporation" is inaccurate. None of the
>>> port came from Altera; the bulk of the original (2008/9) port was by
>>> Andrew Jenner (bits by me and Nathan Sidwell).
>>
>> i assume codesourcery long ago sorted out their copyright assignment
>> papers.
>> has altera (assuming that that they did have at least a partial hand
>> in the
>> work) ?
>
> Altera has a copyright assignment on file with the FSF that at least
> covers their contributions to other components of the Nios II toolchain
> (GCC, GDB, etc). But, as Joseph already said, the initial GLIBC port
> was the work of Andrew Jenner and others at CodeSourcery ca 2008 and the
> attribution of those patches to Altera is incorrect. (Altera's original
> Nios II toolchain was bare-metal only.)
>
> -Sandra
I mistakenly assumed glibc had similar status to the GCC port. I'll
later update the ChangeLog to the correct CodeSourcery personnel.
Thanks,
Chung-Lin