Re: FSF copyright assignment

2024-05-25 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Hi, Seyed Welcome. Glad that you want to contribute to GCC. GCC accepts contributions from developers who either execute a copyright assignment to the Free Software Foundation OR who certify the Developer Certificate of Origin for their contributions. https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html

Re: FSF copyright assignment

2024-05-25 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Seyed, On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 11:34:53AM +0100, Seyed Sajad Kahani via Gcc wrote: > I am writing to request the FSF copyright assignment forms, as they > are a legal requirement for contributing to GCC. At https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright you'l

FSF copyright assignment

2024-05-25 Thread Seyed Sajad Kahani via Gcc
Hi, I am writing to request the FSF copyright assignment forms, as they are a legal requirement for contributing to GCC. Cordially, Seyed Sajad Kahani

Re: Imagination Technologies Limited - FSF copyright assignment forms

2023-06-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Ed, On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:32:15AM +, Ed Crothall wrote: > Could you please send across the relevant copyright assignment forms > to enable contributions to GCC from Imagination Technologies > Limited? At https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright yo

Imagination Technologies Limited - FSF copyright assignment forms

2023-06-08 Thread Ed Crothall
Hi folks. Could you please send across the relevant copyright assignment forms to enable contributions to GCC from Imagination Technologies Limited? Thanks in advance. Best Ed

Re: Question regarding copyright assignment

2022-10-07 Thread Craig Topham via Gcc
Antoni, You'll want to get an employer disclaimer signed by your employer to make sure your contributions cannot be claimed by them. Please email ass...@fsf.org and we can work through the process. -- All the best, Craig Topham Copyright & Licensing Associate Free Software Foundation 51

Re: Question regarding copyright assignment

2022-10-07 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
> What exactly should I list to make sure my contributions to GCC are not > affected by this? > Do I need to do something more than this to make sure there are no > issues with the FSF copyright assignment? > > We cannot provide legal advice, employment advice or labor advice. On

Question regarding copyright assignment

2022-10-06 Thread Antoni Boucher via Gcc
by this? Do I need to do something more than this to make sure there are no issues with the FSF copyright assignment? Thanks.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-30 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
As most of you are probably aware, glibc is also discussing whether or not to remove the copyright assignment mandate to the FSF. I have posted a comment there regarding that, now available at: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-June/128303.html … which is supplemented

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-08 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
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Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-08 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2021 at 2:17 AM > From: "Giacomo Tesio" > To: "David Edelsohn" > Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" , "gcc Mailing List" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > Hi David, > > On June 7, 2021 1:2

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-08 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2021 at 6:10 AM > From: "Giacomo Tesio" > To: "Jason Merrill" > Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" , "gcc Mailing List" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > Hi Jason, > > On June 7, 2021 5:

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Jason, On June 7, 2021 5:24:12 PM UTC, Jason Merrill wrote: > > Why would someone bother to hassle a redistributor who can just say > "nonsense, we're in compliance, the corresponding source is at this > URL"? Usually it's a matter of money AND details. > What return on their time can they

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread NightStrike via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 07:36 Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Hi NightStrike, > > On June 7, 2021 5:18:13 PM UTC, NightStrike wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 06:12 Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > > > > The Steering Committee can avoid all of this, now. > > > I cannot really understand why they shouldn't. > > > > >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi NightStrike, On June 7, 2021 5:18:13 PM UTC, NightStrike wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 06:12 Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > > The Steering Committee can avoid all of this, now. > > I cannot really understand why they shouldn't. > > > > Likely because the primary contributor to c++ has said he will

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:12 PM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > > On June 7, 2021 3:45:49 PM UTC, Jason Merrill wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:23 AM Giacomo Tesio > > wrote: > > > > > > So, a few extra copyright holders under DCO instead of assignment > > > > to FSF will not really change

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread NightStrike via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 06:12 Giacomo Tesio wrote: > The Steering Committee can avoid all of this, now. > I cannot really understand why they shouldn't. > Likely because the primary contributor to c++ has said he will stop contributing unless the change is made. >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
On June 7, 2021 3:45:49 PM UTC, Jason Merrill wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:23 AM Giacomo Tesio > wrote: > > > > So, a few extra copyright holders under DCO instead of assignment > > > to FSF will not really change anything significant. > > > > I'm afraid you are being a bit naive here.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:45:49AM -0400, Jason Merrill wrote: > The copyright troll risk is much, much lower for GCC than for Linux. > First, because GPL3 specifically addresses the over-strict automatic > termination rules in GPL2 that copyright trolls leverage. And also because > there are

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:23 AM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > On June 7, 2021 2:44:56 PM UTC, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > > Nonsense. GCC codebase doesn't have a single copyright holder for > > decades, just look at the source. > > > > libffi has various copyright holders > > include/hsa* has AMD as

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Jakub, On June 7, 2021 2:44:56 PM UTC, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Nonsense. GCC codebase doesn't have a single copyright holder for > decades, just look at the source. > > libffi has various copyright holders > include/hsa* has AMD as copyright holder > gcc/go/gofrontend and libgo has The Go

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 15:48:06 +0200 Richard Biener wrote: > > Also, are there many non-FSF-assigned contribution in the > > development branch already? > > I'm not aware of any anywhere yet. A very good news! (but should be confirmed by the Steering Committee) This means that this issue is

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:17:55PM +, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Anyway, to most people it's just a matter of risk assesment. > > GCC will now come with a new legal risk that was absemt before, thus > it should be handled properly, with a proper notice and incapaulated > in a new major version.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi David, On June 7, 2021 1:26:52 PM UTC, David Edelsohn wrote: > > > It's a breaking change, after all. > > It's not a new or different license (unlike GPLv2->GPLv3). It's not > reverting the existing copyrights and assignments. For sure, but it IS a different legal framework anyway.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Richard Biener via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:10 PM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > On June 7, 2021 7:35:01 AM UTC, Richard Biener > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:27 PM Jason Merrill via Gcc > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Giacomo Tesio > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 6:11 AM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > On June 7, 2021 7:35:01 AM UTC, Richard Biener > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:27 PM Jason Merrill via Gcc > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Giacomo Tesio > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Richard, On June 7, 2021 7:35:01 AM UTC, Richard Biener wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:27 PM Jason Merrill via Gcc > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Giacomo Tesio > wrote: > > > > > > > > I would have really appreciated if the GCC SC had announced such > change > > > for

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-07 Thread Richard Biener via Gcc
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:27 PM Jason Merrill via Gcc wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > > > > I would have really appreciated if the GCC SC had announced such change > > for the upcoming GCC 12 while sticking to the old policy in GCC 11. > > > > That is how I was

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 4:50 AM > From: "Daniel Pono Takamori" > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > I'm joining this list just briefly to give some feedback and input on this > thread on behalf of Softwar

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Daniel, On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 12:50:44 -0400 Daniel Pono Takamori wrote: > We definitely don't want to see the GCC mailing list derailed into > discussing this possibly off-topic issue. To be fair, THIS is the correct mailing list to discuss these topics, so much that such major policy change

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Daniel Pono Takamori
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Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 2:45 AM > From: "Giacomo Tesio" > To: "Jakub Jelinek" > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 16:14:15 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > Becau

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > I would have really appreciated if the GCC SC had announced such change > for the upcoming GCC 12 while sticking to the old policy in GCC 11. > That is how I was thinking of the change, but I agree that it needs clarification. Jason

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Giacomo Tesio
On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 16:14:15 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Because it makes no sense A change in the copyright policies and ownership of a project is usually seen as a very big change, so much that usually the project change its whole name, not just its major version. > doing a GCC release is

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 04:07:07PM +0200, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:02:16 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > > Is it possible to release a new version for the last commit that > > > only includes changes under FSF

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Jakub, On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:02:16 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > Is it possible to release a new version for the last commit that > > only includes changes under FSF copyright, possibly deferring the > > introduction of non-fsf

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
he GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without an FSF copyright assignment. > > Is it possible to release a new version for the last commit that only > includes changes under FSF copyright, possibly deferring the > introd

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-03 Thread Giacomo Tesio
sed under the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. Is it possible to release a new version for the last commit that only includes changes under FSF copyright, possibly deferring the introduction of non-fsf copyright

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-02 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 4:18 AM Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 12:58:12PM -0700, Thomas Rodgers wrote: > > On 2021-06-01 07:28, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > If we no longer want the FSF to be the legal guardian and copyright > > > holder for GCC could we please find

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-02 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2021 at 2:36 AM > From: "Jason Merrill via Gcc" > To: "Mark Wielaard" > Cc: "Florian Weimer" , "gcc Mailing List" > > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 4

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-02 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 4:10 AM Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:05:24AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > > > > What about the parts of GCC with FSF copyrights that are not covered > by > > > > the GPL, but the GPL with exceptions? How is it possible to move > code > > > > between

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Thomas, On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 12:58:12PM -0700, Thomas Rodgers wrote: > On 2021-06-01 07:28, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > If we no longer want the FSF to be the legal guardian and copyright > > holder for GCC could we please find another legal entity that performs > > that role and helps us as a

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:05:24AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > > > What about the parts of GCC with FSF copyrights that are not covered by > > > the GPL, but the GPL with exceptions? How is it possible to move code > > > between the parts if a contributor previously used DCO and thus gave > >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jeff Law via Gcc
for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with the practices of many other major

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Eric Gallager via Gcc
the Free Software Foundation. GCC > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > the practices of many othe

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 7:58 AM > From: "Thomas Rodgers" > To: "Mark Wielaard" > Cc: "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On 2021-06-01 07:28, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > Hi Davi

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Rodgers
, distributed, and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the Linux kernel. Contributors who have an FSF Copyright

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:20 AM > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" > To: "DJ Delorie" > Cc: "Paul Koning" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, DJ Delorie via Gcc wrote:

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
://stallmansupport.org/ https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.gnu.org/ > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:44 AM > From: "Joseph Myers" > To: "David Edelsohn" > Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" , "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assig

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:24 AM > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: "Paul Koning" , "Jakub Jelinek" > , "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Koning via Gcc
> On Jun 1, 2021, at 12:44 PM, Joseph Myers wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote: > >> The copyright author will be listed as "Free Software Foundation, >> Inc." and/or "The GNU Toolchain Authors", as appropriate. > > And copyright notices naming "The GNU Toolchain

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Joseph Myers
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote: > The copyright author will be listed as "Free Software Foundation, > Inc." and/or "The GNU Toolchain Authors", as appropriate. And copyright notices naming "The GNU Toolchain Authors" should not include a date - that's following the

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Koning via Gcc
>> out in full, and the new rules clearly expressed. > > The GNU Toolchain Authors are all of the authors, including those with > FSF Copyright. All of the authors agree to the existing license, > which is "...either version 3, or (at your option) any later version." >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie via Gcc
older I can release my modifications say under v4 or v4+. It > is unclear to me if the newer licence will then "stick" to the rest of the > sources, but I suspect it will. A copyright assignment made to FSF (or > another legal entity) prevents this complication from happenin

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt via Gcc
has always been open to create special exemptions to the copyright assignment process. This is just all ill thought, and clearly shown by the lack of any discussion with anyone.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
> So that cannot be the rationale for this. I do not want to contribute my work to a project that requires FSF copyright assignment to the rest of the project, even if it wouldn't be required for (some of) my own contributions. In any case, historically libstdc++ *does* require an assignm

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:09 AM > From: "Paul Smith" > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 11:50 -0400, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote: > > The current, active license in GPL

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > It is a real problem. As I recall a while ago parts of QEMU had to be > > removed and reimplemented from scratch when the project switched licences, > > because a contributor and therefore a copyright holder (whom I knew in > > person and who I

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
ious reasons, given that the recipient of the sources is not a copyright holder), however as a copyright holder I can release my modifications say under v4 or v4+. It is unclear to me if the newer licence will then "stick" to the rest of the sources, but I suspect it will. A copyrigh

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc
tion. GCC >> > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU >> > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or >> > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with >> > the pr

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 11:50 -0400, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote: > The current, active license in GPL v3.0. This is not an announcement > of any change in license. > > Quoting Jason Merrill: > > "GCC's license is "GPL version 3 or later", so if there ever needed > to be a GPL v4, we could move

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:01 AM > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" > To: "Paul Koning" > Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" , "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, Paul Konin

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
to the existing license, which is "...either version 3, or (at your option) any later version." If the project chooses to adopt a future update to the GPL, all of the authors have given permission through the existing copyright assignment or through certification of the DCO to utilize the newer license. Thanks, David

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc
tion. GCC >> > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU >> > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or >> > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with >> > the pr

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
right for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC > > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt via Gcc
> What is the rationale after these changes anyway? Development of new features for libstdc++ has already moved away from gcc.gnu.org to avoid the copyright assignment. Other contributors have expressed a desire to do the same. >From the GCC mission statement: - Other comp

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, Paul Koning via Gcc wrote: > That seems to create a possible future complication. Prior to this > change, the FSF (as owner of the copyright) could make changes such as > replacing the GPL 2 license by GPL 3. With the policy change, that > would no longer be possible,

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC > > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > &

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread DJ Delorie via Gcc
Paul Koning via Gcc writes: >> GCC's license is "GPL version 3 or later", so if there ever needed to be a >> GPL v4, we could move to it without needing permission from anyone. > > I don't think that is what the license says. It says: > > GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Andrea Corallo via Gcc
es to the Free Software Foundation. GCC >> will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU >> General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or >> without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with >> the practices of many

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
> What is the rationale after these changes anyway? Development of new features for libstdc++ has already moved away from gcc.gnu.org to avoid the copyright assignment. Other contributors have expressed a desire to do the same.

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:25:16AM -0400, Paul Koning via Gcc wrote: > GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) > any later version. > >

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Koning via Gcc
> On Jun 1, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Jason Merrill via Gcc wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:52 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > >> | From: Mark Wielaard >> >> | This seems a pretty bad policy to be honest. >> | Why was there no public discussion on this? >> >> Agreed. I also agree with the

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc
loped, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the > Linux kernel. > > Co

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jason Merrill via Gcc
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:52 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Mark Wielaard > > | This seems a pretty bad policy to be honest. > | Why was there no public discussion on this? > > Agreed. I also agree with the rest of Mark's message. > > (Note: I haven't contributed to GCC but I have

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Richard Kenner via Gcc
> > What about the parts of GCC with FSF copyrights that are not covered by > > the GPL, but the GPL with exceptions? How is it possible to move code > > between the parts if a contributor previously used DCO and thus gave > > only permission to license under the open source license "indicated in

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
I am pleased to see a change based on my recommendation. The FSF should not refrain from accepting contributions based on modified versions of software in instances where the developer of the modified work is unable to get a copyright assignment of the code, but are legally allowed to use

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Mark Wielaard | This seems a pretty bad policy to be honest. | Why was there no public discussion on this? Agreed. I also agree with the rest of Mark's message. (Note: I haven't contributed to GCC but I have contributed to other copylefted code bases.) It is important that the pool

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt via Gcc
to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the Linux kernel. The GCC

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
rement to > > assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC > > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without an FSF copyright assignment. Th

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Koning via Gcc
> On Jun 1, 2021, at 10:31 AM, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote: > > The copyright author will be listed as "Free Software Foundation, > Inc." and/or "The GNU Toolchain Authors", as appropriate. What does that mean? FSF is a well defined organization. "The GNU Toolchain Authors" sounds like

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Committee has decided to relax the requirement to > > assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC > > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
r the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the > Linux kernel. > > Contributors who have an FSF Copy

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Florian Weimer via Gcc
> will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the > Linux

Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread Jakub Jelinek via Gcc
e Free Software Foundation. GCC > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > the practices of many other m

Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

2021-06-01 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
the GNU General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the Linux kernel. Contributors who have an FSF Copyright Assignment don't need to change

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

2021-04-10 Thread Liu Hao via Gcc
在 2021/4/10 下午3:22, Jonathan Wakely 写道: I don't about David, but the reason I take it off-list is that there is more than one form that might be appropriate, depending on the contributor's situation. The forms are available online (e.g. in the gnulib repo) but discussing what is suitable, and

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

2021-04-10 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, 03:37 Liu Hao via Gcc, wrote: > 在 2021/4/9 下午11:06, David Edelsohn via Gcc 写道: > > Replied privately. > > > > Excuse me, but why this has to be done privately? I generally expect there > to be such a form that > people may download, fill and submit without public

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

2021-04-09 Thread Liu Hao via Gcc
在 2021/4/9 下午11:06, David Edelsohn via Gcc 写道: Replied privately. Excuse me, but why this has to be done privately? I generally expect there to be such a form that people may download, fill and submit without public acknowledgements. Please forgive me if I am being too curious. -- Best

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

2021-04-09 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Replied privately. On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 8:37 AM Ruihan Li via Gcc wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > > > > I'd like to contribute to the gccrs project > (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) and they require contributions to have > copyright assignment in place. Coul

Copyright Assignment Form

2021-04-09 Thread Ruihan Li via Gcc
Hello, everyone. I'd like to contribute to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) and they require contributions to have copyright assignment in place. Could you please tell me what I should do and send me the relevant forms? Thank you in advance. Ruihan Li

Re: Copyright assignment

2021-03-30 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Replied off-list. On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:49 AM George Liakopoulos via Gcc wrote: > > Dear GCC Community , > > I am planning to contribute in Rust-GCC project ( > https://github.com/Rust-GCC) , so I think it will be good to have the > copyright assignment from now on . &g

Copyright assignment

2021-03-30 Thread George Liakopoulos via Gcc
Dear GCC Community , I am planning to contribute in Rust-GCC project ( https://github.com/Rust-GCC) , so I think it will be good to have the copyright assignment from now on . Waiting for your reply , George Liakopoulos

Re: Request for Copyright Assignment Form

2021-03-13 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Replied off-list. Thanks, David On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:16 AM Ansh Tyagi via Gcc wrote: > > Hey, > I would like to contribute in Rust-GCC/gccrs so I am requesting a Copyright > Assignment Form. Let me know if there are any more steps to contribute. > > Thanks & Regards > Ansh Tyagi

Request for Copyright Assignment Form

2021-03-13 Thread Ansh Tyagi via Gcc
Hey, I would like to contribute in Rust-GCC/gccrs so I am requesting a Copyright Assignment Form. Let me know if there are any more steps to contribute. Thanks & Regards Ansh Tyagi

Re: Request for copyright assignment form

2021-02-23 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
See off list. Thanks, David On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:08 AM The Other via Gcc wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to get a copyright assignment form for GCC. I believe that > https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html states that the right place to get such a > form is here. > > Thanks, > Theo

Request for copyright assignment form

2021-02-23 Thread The Other via Gcc
Hi, I would like to get a copyright assignment form for GCC. I believe that https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html states that the right place to get such a form is here. Thanks, Theo

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

2021-02-18 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Sent off list. - David On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:28 PM Akshat Agarwal via Gcc wrote: > > Hey, > I would like to contribute some patches to the gccrs project > (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/) and I'd like to get a copyright > assignment form as per the guidelines outli

Copyright Assignment Form

2021-02-17 Thread Akshat Agarwal via Gcc
Hey, I would like to contribute some patches to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/) and I'd like to get a copyright assignment form as per the guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html. Do let me know if there are any more steps involved. Thanks, Akshat

Re: Copyright assignment paperwork request

2021-01-13 Thread David Edelsohn via Gcc
Sent off-list. - David On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM Harris Snyder wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to start contributing to GCC. As such, from my > understanding, I need to file some paperwork related to copyright > assignment. If there is a set of paperwork that woul

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