On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > This seems like a very useful option, thanks! > Yes given that there are around 100 utils, > amalgamation like this reduces overhead significantly. > > For a change this size we'd need copyright assignment though. > Does your employer already have copyright assignment to the FSF? > If not could you initiate the process?
I checked this point with the legal team and they said the company (Google Inc.) has a copyright assignment on file. If accepted, this patch will be owned by the FSF. > Something like this, orthogonal to the existing coreutils logic, > would be considered for the impending coreutils 8.23 release > (hopefully cut next week), though depending on timing this > might slip to the next release. Let me know if you have comments about this patch. I'll try to fix any issue before the 8.23 cut. deymo.
