Re: DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2024-06-17T19:58:20Z

> From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:24:03 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
>
> The main reason why I brought this up because I know in the near
> future (within a year) I will be wanting to help improve/implementing
> GDB for aarch64 windows and currently my employer (Qualcomm) does not
> have a blanket copyright right assignment and has been ok with the DCO
> for submitting patches for GCC and glibc. So this will definitely get
> in the way for me here.

You should talk to the FSF lawyers, because I'm not sure you can
contribute based on a DCO in that case. Your employer can claim they
have the legal rights for the code you wrote.