Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 6/15/21 3:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> If true, it's a significant argument against going with DCO'ed code.
> Certainly we couldn't accept DCO'ed material in any Glibc code shared
> with Gnulib, as Gnulib code is shared among many GNU projects that
> don't do DCO and do such rewriting.

gnulib already accepts such code.

gnulib has been including non-FSF copyrighted material in various 
modules (that include the files below) for a long time.

gnulib could add markup to the modules to indicate if they contain
non-FSF copyrighted material, and then allow the including projects
to decide if this is acceptable to them or not?

The following files in gnulib are not copyright the FSF:

lib/acosl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/asinl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/cosl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/sinl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/tanl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/trigl.c:
Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

lib/atanl.c:
Copyright 2001 by Stephen L. Moshier <moshier@na-net.ornl.gov>

lib/cbrtl.c:
Copyright 1984, 1991 by Stephen L. Moshier

lib/logl.c:
Copyright 2001 by Stephen L. Moshier <moshier@na-net.ornl.gov>

lib/filevercmp.c:
lib/filevercmp.h:
Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Copyright (C) 2001 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

lib/fts.c:
Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

lib/fts_.h:
Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

lib/inet_ntop.c:
Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Internet Software Consortium.

lib/inet_pton.c:
Copyright (c) 1996,1999 by Internet Software Consortium.

lib/random.c:
lib/random_r.c:
Copyright (C) 1983 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

lib/sigsegv.c:
Copyright (C) 2018  Nylon Chen <nylon7@andestech.com>

lib/stackvma.c:
lib/stackvma.h:
Copyright (C) 2003-2006  Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.