Ok, thanks for the pointer to those documents... I remembered they existed somewhere, but was too tired then to look for them, so I just thought putting it in the public domain would be easier. -nathanael
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 10:06 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > Hi Nathanael: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 01:12:44AM +0300, Nathanael Schilling wrote: > > Here's a patch to fix pcrud segfaulting when it gets no params. > > Thanks so much for reporting this bug & providing a patch & hanging out > in IRC to discuss it! Even though the patch itself is only a few lines, > I know how long it can take to track something like this down. Great > work! > > > I hereby put it in the public domain, i hope that's enough. > > As it is only a few lines of code, issues of copyright and licensing are > normally waived. For future submissions though, say if you decide to add > a new feature (a fella can dream, can't he?!), I'll just point out the > "Code Contribution" part of the "Procedures and conventions for > contributing to the Evergreen project" document at > http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contributing > > One of the requirements of code submissions to Evergreen is that the > code be submitted with a license that is either the GPL version 2 with > the "or later versions" clause, or with a license that is compatible > with the GPL. In the eyes of the FSF, at least, "Public domain" falls > under the "compatible with the GPL" list (because it is _not_ > copyrighted and no license is therefore needed). > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > The other requirement of more complex contributions is a "Developer's > Certificate of Origin" which is essentially a statement that you have the > right > to submit the code to the project. > > Again - none of this was required for your bug fix, and we are very > thankful for your assistance! I'm just hoping that maybe, some day, > you'll find these pointers to our project norms helpful for subsequent > contributions :)
