[PATCH] haiku: operating system support

[Alexander von Gluck IV]

September 1, 2021 11:19 AM, "Nick Clifton" <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
>>> The patch itself is fine and I would be happy to apply it - but ...
>>> do you have an FSF copyright assignment for the binutils ?
>> 
>> I'm a bit confused, everything in the patchset is assigning the
>> copyright to FSF as usual. Everyone who contributed to it agreed to
>> the current licensing terms.
>> What is missing?
> 
> Just that. I need to know that the creators of the patch agree to
> assign the copyright to the FSF. The "copyright assignment" I
> referred to is a formal agreement which covers future releases as
> well, so that I do not have to ask on every submission. But if
> you and the other authors of the patch are happy with just
> assigning the contents of this particular patch (for now) then I
> can go ahead and apply it.

The history here is minor patches applied over roughly 20 years
to files with existing copyrights under FSF and the GPL.

We have a full public vcs log covering that 20 years and everyone
who has contributed from our own git repo.

I understand copyright assignments can't be assumed, however
contributing to binutils source files which are copyrighted to the
FSF under a GPL license without the developers attempting to "adjust"
the copyright headers should be sufficient to indicate continued
implied copyright ownership?

As a step in confirming this, I've CC'ed everyone who authored
patches over the last 20 years to this combined patchset.

To those CC'ed, please indicate any disagreements with continued
implied FSF copyright ownership of source code contributed to binutils.

The overall context is up-streaming our Haiku binutils port.


Data Source: https://git.haiku-os.org/buildtools/log/binutils

Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>
François Revol <revol@free.fr>
Ithamar R. Adema <ithamar.adema@team-embedded.nl>
Jonas Sundström <jonas@kirilla.com>
Michael Lotz <mmlr@mlotz.ch>
Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>
Joseph R. Prostko <joe.prostko@gmail.com>
Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@gmail.com>
Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@unixzen.com>
Simon South <ssouth@simonsouth.com>
Jaroslaw Pelczar <jarek@jpelczar.com>


Nick, let me know if you have any alternative thoughts on this.

Thanks!

 -- Alex