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Re: glibc 2.18: One month left!


On 05/14/2013 01:44 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Aurelien,
> 
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:01:43AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:43:05PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2013 05:09 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com>
>>>> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 17:21:29 +0200
>>>>
>>>>> I also encourage distributions to look for patches that they care and
>>>>> send them in for review,
>>>>
>>>> On this note, I really can't believe we still haven't seen a
>>>> submission of Debian's multiarch stuff.
>>>>
>>>> That critically blocks my ability to test on sparc.
> 
>>> How big is the patch?
> 
>>> Is copyright status sorted?
> 
>>> If copyright status is sorted I'd just check it in.
> 
>> I didn't know that glibc was interested by multiarch, that's why the
>> patch haven't been submitted yet.
> 
>> There is no real multiarch support patch (at least for the glibc side),
>> most of the work is done by passing the correct configure options. The
>> patches mostly add support for non-common values.
> 
>> I have identified 3 patches changing around 50 lines each, that are part
>> of the multiarch support. The authors are Steve Langasek and myself. I
>> don't know if has done the copyright paperwork, I have Cced: him.
> 
> Sorry, the email address you used for me (@linaro.org) is no longer valid.
> However, it's still the right email address to use in reference to my
> multiarch patches for glibc, in the sense that those patches were all
> developed while under contract to Linaro.  My best understanding is that
> this means they're covered by a blanket copyright assignment agreement under
> Linaro and the FSF, or if not Linaro, then Canonical and the FSF.  Cf.
> <https://wiki.linaro.org/Copyright>.  However, I don't know the details of
> any standing copyright assignment agreements that would cover glibc;
> hopefully someone on the glibc side is able to check this.

If you did the work while at Linaro then you would be covered
under their blanket copyright assignment by virtue of the contract
you signed to work at Linaro.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 


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