On 06/08/2010 09:21 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:18 +0200, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
I don't understand. WAA rights definitely allow you to shepherd and commit
patches from people without svn access, even for patches you can't approve.
And basile (and other WAA contributors), this would a nice
contribution. Asking people that do not appear to have access to svn
whether you want to commit their patches for them. And keeping them in
It should say: "whether they want you to commit their patches for them."
I thought that for legal reasons, WAA contributors should not commit
code which is not theirs, or on which they did not see the legal
copyright transfer or disclaimer form for the FSF.
You can either ask someone to look up the copyright status or commit
patches that are trivial. The copyright status of a person is usually
clear from the mailing list; if you're particularly interested in a
patch and you cannot figure out their status you can ask on-list or
off-list.
Here are a few of the people with access to the copyright list: me, Ian,
Benjamin Koznik, David Edelsohn, Andreas Schwab, Joseph Myers, Ralf
Wildenhues. This is not a complete list, just people that I remember.
So I don't understand how can I svn-commit code which I don't have
written (or which has not been written by a near colleague covered by
the same legal documents).
Or which has not been written by someone whose patches already got in
the tree, so that you can already trust him/her.
BTW, several companies have a company-wide copyright assignment too.
The only one I can name that may need some help with commits is Mozilla.
Paolo
