From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Stephen Webb <swebb@blackberry.com>,
"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal to Removal of QNX Neutrino support from GDB
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 10:51:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <745bb80a-2068-de05-88bb-d6ea04dea829@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508a3095-6635-f030-fbe1-23454615e167@polymtl.ca>
On 2021-03-01 11:45 a.m., Simon Marchi via Gdb wrote:
>> Regarding the copyright assignment, I'd like to see what is the status
>> of QNX. Is there maybe an existing company-wide copyright assignment
>> for QNX, given the past contributions? Unfortunately, the GNU server
>> used to check those seems down. I'll try back later.
>>
>> If there isn't, it's possible to get an assignment for individuals, or a
>> company-wide one (meaning that any QNX employee can submit code to GDB).
>>
>> The typical form we point individuals to to get an assignment is this
>> one (also down for me at the moment):
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future
>>
>> But I don't know if that differs if you want to get one for someone who
>> will contribute on behalf of a company. The folks at assign@gnu.org
>> will be able to help you.
>>
>> In any case, I'd suggest sorting the copyright assignment thing as early
>> as possible, because that can take some time. You can still send
>> patches and get them reviewed while that is pending, but you won't be
>> able to merge the patches until that's done.
>
> I was able to take a look at the copyright assignment file. I found an
> entry dating from 2002-02-15 for GDB, with no name (it only mentions
> QNX). So it's perhaps a company-wide assignment? Hopefully that can
> help you find any traces of it internally. In doubt, ask
> assign@gnu.org, they probably have access to the detailed paperwork.
>
> Simon
>
Hi Stephen
Do you have any updates about this?
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-11 14:47 Simon Marchi
2020-12-11 17:31 ` Stephen Webb
2020-12-11 17:52 ` Simon Marchi
2021-02-25 21:16 ` Simon Marchi
2021-02-27 15:48 ` Stephen Webb
2021-02-28 15:28 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-01 16:45 ` Simon Marchi
2021-08-04 14:51 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2021-08-04 15:14 ` Stephen Webb
2021-08-04 17:21 ` Simon Marchi
2021-08-04 19:47 ` Luis Machado
2022-04-05 14:30 ` Simon Marchi
2023-03-28 19:24 ` Simon Marchi
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