From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Denis Joseph Barrow" To: ac131313@cygnus.com, "Ulrich Weigand" , "Christoph Arenz" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com, "Wolfgang Bezold" Subject: re gdb patches Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:50:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00201.html Hi Andrew, >As things stand, the FSF doesn't own this code and, as a consequence, >people have strong reservations about working on it. (IBM will only >assign the copyright using a letter that cites a digitally signed patch. >I understand this process to be slow and complicated.). The last one time software letter we sent was a few months back & not against the latest patches, with the aggreement that we send the letter when the patch was close to integration. We currently plan to send another one-time letter with this patch,it is difficult getting our legal guys to aggree to a future assignment form. Does the FSF have problems with our one time letters, is it primarily that the patches are digitally signed & this means they are invalid as soon as I send another attempted patch for integration. D.J. Barrow Gnu/Linux for S/390 kernel developer eMail: djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com Phone: +49-(0)7031-16-2583 IBM Germany Lab, Schönaicherstr. 220, 71032 Böblingen