DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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?

I did, and I was accepted. Thank you for the suggestion.
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>> 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.

Ok, I'll ask.
-- 
Thiago

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