From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23447 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2002 04:30:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23440 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2002 04:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2002 04:30:20 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8C23F43; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:30:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D7D7556.6010209@ges.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 21:30:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Molenda Cc: Adam Fedor , gdb Subject: Re: Apple's Objective-C language patch References: <3D7D0186.8020103@doc.com> <20020909173318.A50843@molenda.com> <3D7D6762.2010300@doc.com> <3D7D6BB7.30403@ges.redhat.com> <20020909205440.A87380@molenda.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:49:11PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> Believe it or not, very recently added to my things to do today list is >> to get an answer to the question: can a third party take random >> Apple/GDB sources and contribute them to the FSF. > > > > Speaking for all of Apple as its duly appointed representative in > all things gdb related (heh heh), I declare yes! Yes, I tell you! I know. and I believe this was was the likely intent. Just need to check that this is what Apple actually signed up to -> I need to ask a lawyer with the actual paper work in front of them to give a nod. This doesn't stop you creating a new tarball and/or similar. > Seriously though, we've got a blanket assignment on file at the > FSF for gcc and gdb, and the only reason the code isn't getting > submitted is because of time being spent on other activities by > the two Apple gdb developers. > > If there are contributors who want to help but don't want to mess > with Apple's anoncvs server I'd be willing to tar up another copy > of our sources (Klee merged it just a couple weeks ago with the > FSF sources), but this isn't the sort of thing I'd want to do on > a frequent basis.. > > > Jason > > PS- if that third party developer does do nonobvious/nontrivial > changes to the patches to get them approved in FSF-gdb, I'd imagine > the third party developer would technically need an FSF assignment > on file before they could be accepted. Yes. This is why both Adam (objective-c) and Aidan (Ada) have an FSF assignment. Andrew