DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
> Cc: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>,  pinskia@gmail.com,
>   gdb@sourceware.org,  binutils@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:48:00 -0300
> 
> >   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.
> 
> I'm interested in reading that thread and in the discussion of whether
> GDB should accept contributions under the DCO. I don't have a personal
> need for it, but my opinion is that it would be beneficial to the GDB
> project.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't access that mailing list archive: it requires a
> password. My understanding is that gnu-prog-discuss is only accessible
> to GNU project maintainers.

I'm not sure this is true.  Did you try subscribing?

> Would it be possible to copy that mailing list thread to a publicly
> accessible location?

That's not for me to decide, please talk to the list admins.