Re: FW: FW: strcasestr() patch proposal

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at sourceware dot org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:38:57AM -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote:
>I did not just said it. I provided a copy of his e-mail.
>What else do you need to believe it?
>
>Of course, the copy is not digitally signed so if you are a paranoiac that
>think I am lying, you can always double check with him:

I'm not sure if you understand this but you are not the first person in
this situation.  You're not even the first person who claimed to be
amazed at how complicated contributing copyrighted work was who then
went on to offer IANAL legal opinions.

This isn't a matter of not trusting your good intentions.  The FSF does
not simply accept email when someone assigns their work to them.  They
require a written document (which takes forever to get approved).
Having someone turn around and send email saying "It's ok to use what I
wrote under a different license" has to be questioned in that scenario.

I appreciate that you are proud of your contributions and want to get
something into cygwin but I think you'd be better served modifying one
of the *BSD sources since those are already the basis for many of the
software in newlib.  If you had asked what was best when you first
started down this road that is what we would have told you.  Again, you
are not the first person who has tried to get something from glibc into
newlib.  I am not the maintainer but I am not aware of anyone who has
been successful in this endeavor.

cgf