From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27281 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2006 16:39:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 27273 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2006 16:39:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:39:46 +0000 Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4BB140669 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDB85107B for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alatau.radix50.net (dslb-088-064-000-200.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.64.0.200]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2D01340D2 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alatau.radix50.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alatau.radix50.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k3KGdYL3021638 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:39:34 +0200 Received: (from ibr@localhost) by alatau.radix50.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k3KGdYAR021637 for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:39:34 +0200 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:39:00 -0000 From: Baurzhan Ismagulov To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: OT: copyright issues (was: Re: D Symbol Demangling) Message-ID: <20060420163934.GB20059@radix50.net> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <44462A40.1040004@kuehne.cn> <20060420132004.GB11710@nevyn.them.org> <20060420152001.GA20059@radix50.net> <200604201540.k3KFeF9U004330@greed.delorie.com> <20060420154630.GA16179@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060420154630.GA16179@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00280.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:46:30AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > If the patch author has the right assignments, he/she can publish the > > patch itself under both licenses, so that it can be applied to both. > > > > What you can't do is take the fix from the sources themselves and > > apply it to the other sources, because once they're published under > > one license you don't have the right to change that license to > > something else. > > Right. The precise situation I was alluding to is that you need to > track authorship of changes; you can't accept fixes to the other > version from contributors without an FSF copyright assignment and > propogate them into GDB. Great! Just to clarify: A and B are employed by a Company and the employer has all rights on code they produce. A has an assignment and contributes code to FSF. This code is also included in a closed-source product, distributed by the Company in binary-only form. B makes a patch to the code and wants to propagate it into the FSF copy. B doesn't have an assignment. IIUC, the above says this patch can't be accepted (I understand "authorship" as personal, not corporate), even though it's the Company who had donated code. Does this mean that, in order to have the patch included, B (and only B, not anyone else from the Company) has to sign a copyright assignment? Thanks again, Baurzhan.