GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

"Trade Secrets" in license.txt?

Asked by Stephen Kilbane

Looking at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/268329627/license.txt, Part 8, Section (6) has this text:

    (6) Array Technology Corporation and MIPS (mips/lsi33k-stub.h)

    COPYRIGHT (C) 1991, 1992 ARRAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
              All Rights Reserved

    This software is confidential information which is proprietary to and
    a trade secret of ARRAY Technology Corporation. Use, duplication, or
    disclosure is subject to the terms of a separate license agreement.

I don't understand how downloads and distribution are possible, with this constraint. Should it really be there? Looking at the newlib.src.bz2 content, I don't find anything that actually uses this notice.

On a more minor point, Part 5 notes that the LGPL3 applies to "gcb" - should this be "gdb", instead?

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Tejas Belagod (belagod-tejas) said : 		#1

Hi,

That statement comes from COPYING.LIBGLOSS in newlib.
The file(libgloss/mips/lsi33k-stub.h) that the notice applied to was itself removed in 2006. See git hash 74e2b21eac855ac959ac94cdfb493dc2097ac9b9 on git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git

commit 74e2b21eac855ac959ac94cdfb493dc2097ac9b9
Author: Jeff Johnston <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 10 15:52:39 2006 +0000

    Removed.

which is long before we started shipping the GNU ARM Embedded tools.

The copyright notice itself was removed from COPYLING.LIBGLOSS in 2013.

commit 0c2c3ac839fa1bbdde5ea2794d2d2de5c2c503c6
Author: Jeff Johnston <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 7 21:39:26 2013 +0000

    2013-01-07 Jeff Johnston <email address hidden>

            * COPYING.LIBGLOSS: Remove license for mips/lsi33k-stub.h which no longer
            exists and replace the new bfin license in its location.

Yes, 'gcb' looks like a typo for 'gdb'.

Our original license.txt had this statement because it was copied from COPYING.LIBGLOSS which still had it after the file it applied to was removed. Now that COPYING.LIBGLOSS does not, we will update our license.txt file to reflect these changes.

Thanks,
Tejas.

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