On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Warner Losh <imp@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