Re: DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2024-06-17T15:58:28Z

On 6/17/24 12:00 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:23 AM Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
> <gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>> Just a heads up, too, if your patch isn't a trivial fix, you might need
>> to sign a bit of paperwork giving the copyright of changes to GDB to the
>> Free Software Foundation before we are able to accept the changes. I
>> mention this up front because I know a few people who were turned off by
>> the idea, even though the process itself isn't complicated.
> I just noticed that GDB (and binutils) are currently not accepting
> DCO's like both glibc
> (https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist#Copyright_and_license)
> and GCC (https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal) are now accepting.
> Has there been any talk about accepting DCOs for gdb and binutils? Or
> has this not been brought up yet?

I haven't heard of it yet, every time I see a new contributor with a
patch accepted, the copyright assignment is always the way everyone
uses, and it has stalled the last release.

I for one would absolutely love if we could use a quick DCO line instead
of current process.

--
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
She/Her/Hers

>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Guinevere Larsen
>> She/Her/Hers
>>