From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2063 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2008 18:12:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 2015 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2008 18:12:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:11:38 +0000 Received: from [68.108.142.23] (helo=macbook-2.local) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KzbEe-0003GL-4I; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:11:36 -0500 Message-ID: <49187957.7030203@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:50:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Tristan Gingold , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Darwin port (Part 0) References: <49187306.6090201@earthlink.net> <20081110175252.GE5112@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20081110175252.GE5112@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940e036defae621032091994925ecdfec2b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00182.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: >> There is no copyright obstacle that I know of - Apple made a blanket >> assignment to the FSF for all future GDB changes. >> > > I'm still a bit concerned, primarily because I'm not a lawyer. > But does having a blanket assignment for all past and future changes > mean that any GDB code they write and put on their website is > automatically assigned to the FSF? That's exactly what the blanket assignment means. In fact one of the goals, going back to the overall Darwin open source effort, was to enable non-Apple people to contribute code to public repositories without being blocked on Apple engineers unavailable due to internal deadlines and such. (Yes, it could also be thought of as exploiting the community :-) , but now it's working to our advantage.) Stan