DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:48:13 -0300
> Cc: pinskia@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
> From: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
> 
> On 6/17/24 4:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That's not an excuse.  And you can ask me to do that.  I will make
> > time for it, exactly as I make time to review documentation patches
> > here, and as I make time to explain this stuff to contributors to
> > Emacs.
> 
> Then I suggest you add your name and email to the wiki, where the people 
> that never even get to the point of interacting with us will find it to 
> ask for questions.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#FSF_copyright_Assignment

I don't mind, but I didn't see any names and emails mentioned there.
Did I miss something?

> > Anyone who wants to discuss this seriously should first read the
> > gnu-prog-discuss discussion of these issues, from June 2021 (it went
> > on all the way through July).
> >
> Telling someone who actively asked to learn more that "ok, go read those 
> email threads" without any convenience like saying the subject to search 
> for it easily, or the archive where I can look for it, and furthermore, 
> I am forced to subscribe to a list I frankly do not care about just to 
> see the discussion you consider required reading before even accepting 
> to have a conversation is a very unhelpful way to explain anything for 
> anyone.

This must be some grave misunderstanding.  The discussion to which I
pointed was a very long one, took more than a month, and expecting me
(or someone else) to summarize it is unreasonable, even if you ignore
the possibility that a summary might omit aspects that are important
for you, let alone the time required to produce such a summary.  The
gnu-prog-discuss list had a very small number of threads in June 2021,
so I thought finding the right one would be a no-brainer.  But since
it sounds like I was mistaken, I apologize; here's the link to the
beginning of that thread:

  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/private/gnu-prog-discuss/2021q2/016757.html

The subject of the thread is, unsurprisingly, "Copyright assignments".
It also points to related discussions on GCC, glibc, and Gnulib lists.

The reason I think a serious discussion of this should start by
reading that one is that it doesn't sound a good investment of
everyone's time to re-iterate all the arguments which were already
brought forward there and discussed from every possible aspect.  I
apologize for not making myself clear earlier, and hope I made myself
more clear now: there was no intent to be unhelpful, just an attempt
to be efficient by pointing to a very extensive discussion of this and
related topics.