[PATCH] haiku: operating system support

[Ingo Weinhold]

Hi Alex, hi Nick,

I agree to the assignment of copyright ownership to the FSF concerning
my Haiku support contributions to binutils.

Best regards,
Ingo Weinhold


On 01.09.21 19:26, Alexander von Gluck IV wrote:
> 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
>