From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25411 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2007 02:11:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 25402 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Dec 2007 02:11:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from VLSI1.ULTRA.NYU.EDU (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:11:04 +0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA25957; Tue, 25 Dec 07 21:10:46 EST From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <10712260210.AA25957@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:17:00 -0000 To: tejgcc@westnet.com.au Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages Cc: aoliva@redhat.com, bernds_cb1@t-online.de, dberlin@dberlin.org, ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, sam@rfc1149.net, schwab@suse.de In-Reply-To: <1198609072.25084.14.camel@tim-gcc> References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <200712022136.57819.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <4aca3dc20712021240k19f3eae5j66453276179c401a@mail.gmail.com> <200712022355.23871.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <4aca3dc20712021621n39a036d2u21f471f231dfffe@mail.gmail.com> <10712031329.AA20246@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <1198609072.25084.14.camel@tim-gcc> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00680.txt.bz2 > (Minor quibble) As copyright owner of GCC, the FSF is not bound by the > conditions of the licence it grants in the same way as licencees are > bound. So I don't think this provision in itself would mandate that > those who have copyright assignments to the FSF record their changes. I was hoping nobody would notice that. ;-) > I don't hear anyone arguing that people should not record what they > changes and when. The question is whether it is sufficient. I think we all agree that it isn't, but figuring out where and what to put elsewhere has been tricky.