Greetings overseers,


 From the email below, you can see I was having some issues subscribing 
to the newlib mailing list (sorry for possibly having brought down the 
site a few times). Those issue have been resolved though, I've been able 
to request subscription without issues already, but I've encounteredd 
other issues. I got the following message:

      Your subscription request has been received, and will soon be
    acted upon. Depending on the configuration of this mailing list,
    your subscription request may have to be first confirmed by you via
    email, or approved by the list moderator. If confirmation is
    required, you will soon get a confirmation email which contains
    further instructions.

I haven't received any confirmation email and it doesn't seem like I've 
bene actually added to the mailing list. I was wondering maybe I needed 
moderator approval. If you guys could help me properly join the newlib 
mailing list it would be much appreciated as I'd like to continue the 
discussion of my possibility of contributing over there.

Please reply at ignacio.vargas@rapidsilicon.com


Best regards,

Ignacio Vargas


On 1/24/23 04:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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> On Jan 23 18:53, Ignacio Vargas wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> I've been trying to subscribe to the mailing list throughout the past few
>> hours but whenever I click the "subscribe" button the site returns me a 500
>> error code and then it seems the whole site goes down for a while. In which
>> case, I want to apologize for bringing down the site multiple times today.
>> I'm writing to the mailing list to get help with this issue because I needed
>> to join to ask some questions and I can't find an "administrator" contact
>> anywhere on the site.
> There's a mailing list <overseers AT sourceware DOT org> for that,
> please ask there.
>
>> In the interest of possibly saving us some time I'm also going to mention
>> what I needed to ask about. In case the answer is a simple "no" then I won't
>> have anymore to say anyways, but please don't feel obligated at all to
>> answer my query:
>>
>>       I was considering writing a stripped-down baremetal version of
>>     argp
>>     (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argp.html#index-argp-_0028program-argument-parser_0029)
>>     from glibc. I was wondering if I could write it as a contribution to
>>     newlib and, similarly to glibc's argp, write it using getopt. I
>>     mostly don't know if newlib would accept it because it's a library
>>     specific to GNU-C.
> Newlib already has a couple of GNU-specific functions implemented,
> so that's no problem.
>
> The only potential problem is the license.  If you write your argp
> implementation from scratch, you can use any BSD-like license you like.
> However, if you take the gloibc code as base, your code would be GPLed,
> which is not feasible for almost all targets supported by newlib.
>
>
> Corinna
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