Re: [RFC] patches from FreeBSD and FSF copyright papers

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Hi Luca,

> I'm Luca, the current maintainer of the gdb ports in FreeBSD
> (http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb/)
> To improve the support of FreeBSD in gdb, several patches are applied,
> but I guess it's better to submit these patches to upstream as well.
> AFAIK, this is the right place to submit patches.
> 
> At the moment, we have several patches almost ready; I wanna restyle
> them to be conform to GNU-conding-style and submit to upstream.
> The first patch I would like to submit is about 15 lines, but other
> patches will follow.
> 
> AFAIK, to submit patches I have to sign the FSF copyright assignment
> from contributors, to avoid GPL violation in gdb.
> I've tried to contact the Patch Champion (reading gdb/MAINTAINERS),
> but I've got a 550 Unrouteable address as answer.
> Who can I contact about FSF papers?

I see that Sergio is already taking excellent care of you,
and we look forward to integrating your patches.

One thing probably worth asking is whether you are the author
of all the patches that you'll be submitting? If not, I am pretty
sure that some form of assignment needs to be done before you can
then assign them to the FSF and contribute them to our tree. We'll
get help from the FSF if needed.

Thank you!
-- 
Joel