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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:30:54 -0700
From:      Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libutil in Debian
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 2013/7/9 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>:
> > What about importing the necessary functions into the glibc libutil for
> > Debian?  This way it stays as libutil, and if glibc imports the
> functions to
> > itself there's less to worry about.  If glibc's libutil started out life
> as
> > libbsdcompat, then I think it would be appropriate to merge as needed.
>
> Even assuming they'd agree, which is unlikely, FSF would require
> copyright assignment paperwork, to be signed and physically mailed by
> each contributor. This would apply to future updates as well.
>
> The paper itself is no big deal (author retains the right to license
> the software under any terms they wish), but hunting down contributors
> to persuade them to sign the papers is definitely not what I had in
> mind when I started this thread ;-)
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>

I was thinking more in terms of adding the functions to the debian local
patch set.  I don't know how intrusive it would be, but it may be worth
looking into.

- Justin



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