From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: gdb.1 - order options alphabetically in manual page
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910013154.GA4244@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910010821.GG20694@adacore.com>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:08:21PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Unfortunately, I do not think that we can use your emacs assignment
> for GDB code. The problem is that I have no idea if it is OK to accept
> changes of this nature. Normally, the guidelines for accepting patches
> without an assignment on file is that it should be 10 lines or less.
> So your patch does not qualify. But on the other hand, it is the obvious
> implementation of the idea of ordering the switches by alphabetical
> order.
>
> Does anyone know? Should I enquire?
I'd say this was a non-copyrightable change, and thus acceptable.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html#Legally-Significant
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 18:20 Jari Aalto
2009-09-10 1:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-10 1:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-09-10 22:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-11 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-11 23:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-12 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 18:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-10-11 21:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-11 23:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 15:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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