Re: [RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Luca Pizzamiglio <luca dot pizzamiglio at gmail dot com>]

Hi Joel, hi Sergio,

thanks for the reply!
I'm submitting the request to FSF.
@Joel: another developer is asking me about assignments, because he's
the author of another set of patches and he needs that papers too.
I guess I can forward him the same form I received from Sergio...

Thanks for the help!

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
>> I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
>> (http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
>> To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
>> but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
>> AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.
>>
>> At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
>> them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
>> The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
>> patches will follow.
>>
>> AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
>> from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
>> I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
>> but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
>> Who can I contact about FSF papers?
>
> I see that Sergio is already taking excellent care of you,
> and we look forward to integrating your patches.
>
> One thing probably worth asking is whether you are the author
> of all the patches that you'll be submitting? If not, I am pretty
> sure that some form of assignment needs to be done before you can
> then assign them to the FSF and contribute them to our tree. We'll
> get help from the FSF if needed.
>
> Thank you!
> --
> Joel