From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13790 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2009 22:26:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 13782 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Nov 2009 22:26:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from c60.cesmail.net (HELO c60.cesmail.net) (216.154.195.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:26:20 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO epsilon2) ([192.168.1.60]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 25 Nov 2009 17:26:18 -0500 Received: from 89.240.199.199 ([89.240.199.199]) by webmail.spamcop.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:26:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20091125172618.ydch3h9sg0ws44ko-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:26:00 -0000 From: Joern Rennecke To: Basile STARYNKEVITCH Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: trivial trailing whitespace issue References: <10911251651.AA00241@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4B0D6245.3010601@redhat.com> <4B0D6708.7060306@redhat.com> <4B0D6DE6.4010708@gmail.com> <4B0D8C4B.9020405@redhat.com> <4B0D8ED5.1060303@starynkevitch.net> <4B0DA40A.1090205@starynkevitch.net> In-Reply-To: <4B0DA40A.1090205@starynkevitch.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) 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: 2009-11/txt/msg00726.txt.bz2 Quoting Basile STARYNKEVITCH : > I would imagine that patching GNU indent (in its source code form) > requires a copyright assignment specific to it (and uncovered by a, or > at least "mine", GCC copyright assigment to FSF). If this is the case, > I [Basile] won't do it (because getting a copyright assignemnt is so > painful to me). If you put a patch against GNU indent in contrib to format GCC-style, wouldn't that then be a part of GCC and thus covered? If that is the case, then you can post afterwards this piece of FSF-owned GCC code to the indent maintainers...