DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

[Jan Beulich]

On 17.06.2024 17:57, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
> On 6/17/24 12:00 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:23 AM Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
>> <gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>> Just a heads up, too, if your patch isn't a trivial fix, you might need
>>> to sign a bit of paperwork giving the copyright of changes to GDB to the
>>> Free Software Foundation before we are able to accept the changes. I
>>> mention this up front because I know a few people who were turned off by
>>> the idea, even though the process itself isn't complicated.
>> I just noticed that GDB (and binutils) are currently not accepting
>> DCO's like both glibc
>> (https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist#Copyright_and_license)
>> and GCC (https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal) are now accepting.
>> Has there been any talk about accepting DCOs for gdb and binutils? Or
>> has this not been brought up yet?
> 
> I haven't heard of it yet, every time I see a new contributor with a 
> patch accepted, the copyright assignment is always the way everyone 
> uses, and it has stalled the last release.
> 
> I for one would absolutely love if we could use a quick DCO line instead 
> of current process.

Yet binutils/MAINTAINERS already mentions this as a possibility.

Jan