Re: libidn add-on into main glibc.tar

[Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>]

> I don't.  The libidn copy in libc is rather old, so you might want to
> look into syncing the code from the real libidn.  On the other hand, I
> don't recall any critical fixes in a long time, so it might not be worth
> the effort.

I didn't mean to raise any technical subject about libidn itself.  If
updates are worthwhile, please send them separately.  But that is another
subject and I'm sure we don't want to touch it right this moment, until
after the pending release (i.e. wouldn't merge anything for a few weeks).

> Yes.  I recall discussing this when I started the libidn project and it
> was OK.  Anyway, I suspect I have a copyright assignment for libc in
> place already, and I did the first patch to make libc use libidn, so
> this may be a non-issue.

I don't see any libc assignment from you on file.  If there were one,
I'm not sure it's clear it would necessarily apply to the libidn add-on.
If you would like to file an assignment covering the libidn/ files in
the libc repository so we can change their copyright notices to FSF,
that would be my preference.


Thanks,
Roland