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RE: [PATCH] Add MIPS UFR support
- From: Andrew Bennett <Andrew dot Bennett at imgtec dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Steve Ellcey <Steve dot Ellcey at imgtec dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:16:33 +0000
- Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add MIPS UFR support
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- References: <0DA23CC379F5F945ACB41CF394B982774C8579 at LEMAIL01 dot le dot imgtec dot org> <0DA23CC379F5F945ACB41CF394B982774DAC91 at LEMAIL01 dot le dot imgtec dot org> <0DA23CC379F5F945ACB41CF394B982774E7990 at LEMAIL01 dot le dot imgtec dot org> <201312181507 dot 17702 dot vapier at gentoo dot org>
>On Wednesday 18 December 2013 10:36:05 Andrew Bennett wrote:
>> Steve Ellcey (cc'd on this email) does have copyright assignment for gdb.
>> Would you be happy if we used his copyright assignment? Steve is also
>> happy to submit the patch if you don't want to.
>
> anyone who has contributed substantially has to have papers to cover them
> specifically. if you did it for a company, then that company has to have
> papers filed (which it seems you did via imgtec). the fact that Steve has
> papers in place is irrelevant.
>
> so if imgtec has papers covering all of its employees, then that should be
> sufficient here.
> note: i'm not applying these rules because i want to (or even agree with
> them). the fsf governs this code base, and their rules are to no longer
> accept unassigned work.
Thats absolutely fine. We are currently sorting this out, and we should have
it done by early next year.
Regards,
Andrew