Re: Contribute Target Question

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>]

On 01/09/2010 16:02, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:37:57AM -0700, Weston Schmidt wrote:
>> I use the AVR32 chips & according to Atmel they are no longer going to
>> support a stand alone binutils / gcc toolchain.  They have provided
>> the patches they use to make the AVR32 binutils toolchain separately,
>> and I am wondering what (if any) process I can use to contribute their
>> patches to the mainline binutils project so the target is easier to
>> maintain.  I did some searching & didn't see an answer to how to
>> pursue this.  I am not associated with Atmel or their toolchain team
>> at all.
> 
> You can't really contribute work done by someone else unless you have
> their permission.  More than that, you'll need to satisfy the FSF
> lawyers.  That means finding all the authors of the patches and having
> them, and Atmel, go through the normal FSF copyright assignment
> process.  

  The assignments list on fencepost suggests that Atmel have a corporate assign:

> GCC, GDB, GLIBC Atmel Corporation       2009-10-23
> Assigns Past and Future Changes in items listed on Attachement A (see document)

  If I've understood that right (I have no idea where to find 'attachment a'),
it means that anyone (with an assign of their own) could port them up to HEAD
and submit, no?

    cheers,
      DaveK