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Re: Contribute Target Question
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: weston_schmidt at alumni dot purdue dot edu
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:32:18 +0930
- Subject: Re: Contribute Target Question
- References: <AANLkTikx6L5iuCrxW1dgif3KzjUAQxhcc+jrF9ahR1B4@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:37:57AM -0700, Weston Schmidt wrote:
> I use the AVR32 chips & according to Atmel they are no longer going to
> support a stand alone binutils / gcc toolchain. They have provided
> the patches they use to make the AVR32 binutils toolchain separately,
> and I am wondering what (if any) process I can use to contribute their
> patches to the mainline binutils project so the target is easier to
> maintain. I did some searching & didn't see an answer to how to
> pursue this. I am not associated with Atmel or their toolchain team
> at all.
You can't really contribute work done by someone else unless you have
their permission. More than that, you'll need to satisfy the FSF
lawyers. That means finding all the authors of the patches and having
them, and Atmel, go through the normal FSF copyright assignment
process. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM