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Re: [PATCH] review request: implementing DW_AT_endianity
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Peeter Joot <peeter dot joot at gmail dot com>, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Peeter Joot <peeter dot joot at lzlabs dot com>, Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:47:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] review request: implementing DW_AT_endianity
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On 02/13/2019 02:11 PM, Peeter Joot wrote:
>> Hi! What is the status of this? I'm still interested in getting this
>> patch into gdb.
>>
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> FSF legal is essentially unresponsive about the contribution paperwork that
> we submitted (Oct 2017.)
>
> We last heard from the FSF Licensing & Compliance Manager August 31st last
> year, who stated they were hiring a new administrator, and asked for some
> time to review. Our company legal asked if we could provide any additional
> information to help things along Oct 1st last year, and again Jan 14th this
> year -- I don't believe we received any reply from the FSF.
I'm very sorry to hear that. I'll get in touch with the FSF, see if
we can help unblock this. In my experience copyright assignments are
pretty quick nowadays, except that last year the FSF went through
that administration change, which unfortunately delayed things.
>
> The delays were so extensive that we've opted to use lldb as our backend
> debugger, and have started contributing changes to the lldb/clang/llvm
> stack instead. That said, if the FSF does process our contribution
> paperwork, it is still my intention to rebase my changes against
> binutils/LATEST and submit a patch.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves