[RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Luca Pizzamiglio]

Hi people,

I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
(http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.

At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
patches will follow.

AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
Who can I contact about FSF papers?

Thanks in advance!
I'm looking forward to work with you!

Best regards,
Luca Pizzamiglio

PS: please, add me in reply, because I'm not subscribed to the mailing
list (yet)
m: luca.pizzamiglio@gmail.com
m: pizzamig@fsfe.org

Re: [RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Monday, November 24 2014, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:

> Hi people,

Hi, Luca!

> I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
> (http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
> To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
> but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
> AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.

Yeah, this is the right place.  And thank you very much for deciding to
submit them, much appreciated!

> At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
> them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
> The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
> patches will follow.
>
> AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
> from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
> I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
> but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
> Who can I contact about FSF papers?

I will send you the form offlist :-).

Cheers,

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Re: [RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Joel Brobecker]

Hi Luca,

> I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
> (http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
> To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
> but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
> AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.
> 
> At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
> them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
> The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
> patches will follow.
> 
> AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
> from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
> I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
> but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
> Who can I contact about FSF papers?

I see that Sergio is already taking excellent care of you,
and we look forward to integrating your patches.

One thing probably worth asking is whether you are the author
of all the patches that you'll be submitting? If not, I am pretty
sure that some form of assignment needs to be done before you can
then assign them to the FSF and contribute them to our tree. We'll
get help from the FSF if needed.

Thank you!
-- 
Joel

Re: [RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Luca Pizzamiglio]

Hi Joel, hi Sergio,

thanks for the reply!
I'm submitting the request to FSF.
@Joel: another developer is asking me about assignments, because he's
the author of another set of patches and he needs that papers too.
I guess I can forward him the same form I received from Sergio...

Thanks for the help!

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
>> I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
>> (http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
>> To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
>> but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
>> AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.
>>
>> At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
>> them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
>> The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
>> patches will follow.
>>
>> AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
>> from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
>> I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
>> but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
>> Who can I contact about FSF papers?
>
> I see that Sergio is already taking excellent care of you,
> and we look forward to integrating your patches.
>
> One thing probably worth asking is whether you are the author
> of all the patches that you'll be submitting? If not, I am pretty
> sure that some form of assignment needs to be done before you can
> then assign them to the FSF and contribute them to our tree. We'll
> get help from the FSF if needed.
>
> Thank you!
> --
> Joel