Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.

[Bruno Haible]

Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> gnulib already accepts such code.
> 
> gnulib has been including non-FSF copyrighted material in various 
> modules (that include the files below) for a long time.

Yes. But the article "Our need for copyright papers has not gone away"
by Richard Stallman explains, among other things, that it makes a big
difference whether a small part or a large part of the package is not
covered by copyright assignments.

In the case of Gnulib so far, it's less than 2% of the code. That's
a small part of Gnulib.

It would be much, much worse if a *large* part of Gnulib was not
covered by copyright assignments.

Similarly, Bradley Kuhn [1] reminded to think about the *long term* mix
of copyright holders.

Bruno

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-June/128303.html