ARM issue with old binutils

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jun 22 17:36:36 UTC 2011


On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> I'd be inclined to include a small patch to FreeBSD's binutils to implement this.  You might be able to snag it from a newer version of binutils if you can track down the author of that code and ask if you can include it in a GPLv2 version of binutils.
> 
> Wouldn't the FSF be the copyright owner?  I thought that they required
> copyright assignment for contributions?

Not necessarily.  Only large things need to be assigned.  Simple patches not so much...

Warner



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