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- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, "Ulrich Weigand" <Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com>, "Christoph Arenz" <ARENZ at de dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: re gdb patches
- From: "Denis Joseph Barrow" <DJBARROW at de dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:48:34 +0200
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, "Wolfgang Bezold" <bezold1 at de dot ibm dot com>
Hi Andrew,
>As things stand, the FSF doesn't own this code and, as a consequence,
>people have strong reservations about working on it. (IBM will only
>assign the copyright using a letter that cites a digitally signed patch.
>I understand this process to be slow and complicated.).
The last one time software letter we sent was a few months back & not
against
the latest patches, with the aggreement that we send the letter when the
patch was
close to integration.
We currently plan to send another one-time letter with this patch,it is
difficult
getting our legal guys to aggree to a future assignment form.
Does the FSF have problems with our one time letters, is it primarily that
the patches
are digitally signed & this means they are invalid as soon as I send
another attempted
patch for integration.
D.J. Barrow Gnu/Linux for S/390 kernel developer
eMail: djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com
Phone: +49-(0)7031-16-2583
IBM Germany Lab, Schönaicherstr. 220, 71032 Böblingen