From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from esa2.mentor.iphmx.com (esa2.mentor.iphmx.com [68.232.141.98]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56B5F385E008 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:37:54 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 56B5F385E008 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesourcery.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mentor.com IronPort-SDR: u4KB+dH+ge5zWSDJzXY6Fog25XnA0t9QL78bq50jKuQLnMDGR95wlJrApgv9+T4d5/ETtXxHfO wCxgZh8+OjsvJhl3A8UkdQokU6BA21aLoUSGktIvQk+8lfl61MMqGYPZkYtyNlHVtYfDPIHcSY TyXGPIBQtxeDUehhGlbroLsjL65S90dRvUn2cmKwdcXlQnYqT2pOM2qyZWldbwIQMmR3slkq53 rKZNjLC2j0BKL818G8+4aa+03t5vqYQ/qmM/9g/fkKpn821dswwBvCt4FvZy+OK5w8dCeAbD85 cz0= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,326,1616486400"; d="scan'208";a="63179977" Received: from orw-gwy-01-in.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.165]) by esa2.mentor.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 05 Jul 2021 12:37:53 -0800 IronPort-SDR: jPoXHgjhLlp5qYj9fkaNbz9mxOdPXCTIrhaVfB7cx435r+EA2zezxO3p7ppzCRmR8MstwYWfFQ 1xTbjjX6sexSiFeLwH+w/T5KuQ3KuSkk8oDsUgoKT61t6J9ZAP3olpFzqMMdkIP1E4kxwRNbZL rSJgekmDj1ZZkOA5yxAMEwilKynva8wZ02LzXwoXkom/STdFg4/HZWp8XsBHWGJr/UfV4WPpW0 NuQ0vNp9GfKlsZFgv7RNQydtRAXjqWXlJyAV8341zL0mNVSiXMfaPES5Eo+fhICEVlBFmwkenA rNo= Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:37:47 +0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Paul Eggert CC: Carlos O'Donell , DJ Delorie , "Dmitry V. Levin" , Bruno Haible , Subject: Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1b2ac4c8-0bbf-b7a7-8b05-03d5a71d46f4@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3120.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:37:55 -0000 On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 7/2/21 3:33 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > > gnulib has been including non-FSF copyrighted material in various > > modules (that include the files below) for a long time. > > If gnulib-tool modifies any of those non-FSF copyright notices, then that's a > bug that should be fixed. It doesn't modify the first one, so we should be OK > there. (I didn't check the others.) > > This raises another issue. What will be the glibc policy about putting > copyright notices on files containing DCOed material? Will there be a separate > copyright notice for each contributor? Linux doesn't do that - which is too > sloppy for glibc, surely. I don't know what GCC plans to do. I suggest using the same form as agreed by the GCC Steering Committee for use in GCC: Copyright The GNU Toolchain Authors. with no date specified and not naming individual contributors, following the recommendations at . -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com