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Re: Contribute Target Question
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:06:58 +0930
- Subject: Re: Contribute Target Question
- References: <AANLkTikx6L5iuCrxW1dgif3KzjUAQxhcc+jrF9ahR1B4@mail.gmail.com> <20100901150218.GC16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> <4C7ECA17.5090607@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 10:48:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 01/09/2010 16:02, Alan Modra wrote:
> > 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)
>
That's nice to see. One of the hurdles may already be passed.
> 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?
I doubt it, but I'm not interested in wasting my time and everyone
else's time offering my useless opinion on a legal matter.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html and
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Papers
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM