From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29209 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2009 18:21:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 29199 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2009 18:21:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hagrid.ecoscentric.com (HELO mail.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:21:12 +0000 Received: from localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956B33B40057; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:21:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xZHCdC2cnpRk; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49664410.8090704@eCosCentric.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:21:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Dallaway CC: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: #!/usr/bin/env tclsh References: <496635B7.8060808@dallaway.org.uk> <49663810.3010202@eCosCentric.com> <49663D09.6070902@dallaway.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <49663D09.6070902@dallaway.org.uk> OpenPGP: id=A5FB74E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 John Dallaway wrote: > [ moving to ecos-maintainers list ] > > Hi Jifl > > Jonathan Larmour wrote: > >> John Dallaway wrote: >> >>> This patch simplifies the #! magic used to invoke Tcl scripts by using >>> "/usr/bin/env tclsh" to find the tclsh executable. Very old Cygwin >>> installations providing only tclsh83.exe or cygtclsh80.exe are no-longer >>> supported. Checked-in. >> Can you please refrain from further non-trivial changes until you have a >> copyright assignment. > > I do not consider these changes to be copyrightable. Simplification of > the #! magic for Tcl scripts is more trivial in nature than the > documentation references I added late last year which we agreed were not > copyrightable. Actually you stated that, I did not. I said "probably" and said it was very much thin ice. I was not happy about it. And I asked you to include those on the assignment request regardless. This is why I did not ask you to revert the patch - with a random net contributor I would have. > What aspect of these changes do you consider to be copyrightable? It's sailing close to the wind. IANAL and I don't want to need to talk to one, so under the principle of keeping it simple I have a preference for 19k patches not going in without assignment, for the sake of waiting a very short time. That's why I was asking for no more, rather than asking you to revert it. Thinking about it, resubmitting the assignment request form is probably OTT. The FSF does not include this information on the assignment itself IIRC: but they do keep records of the information for legal reasons. So maybe it is adequate to simply inform assign (AT) fsf.org of the extra files. If you can do that, I'd be happy. But still hold back on anything non-trivial in the (unlikely) event they aren't happy. Jifl -- eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. ------["Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere"]------ Opinions==mine