Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:32:35 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libutil in Debian Message-ID: <20130709213235.GA32425@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAOfDtXMgX1VT38yhjPOJvVo60fzpdNfa1tYCBpt2gBRp8LbzVg@mail.gmail.com> References: <0657575A-BF3A-486F-9582-C01E0FD97E38@bsdimp.com> <51DC4712.20707@coosemans.org> <CAGE5yCpD7WxW6vFtUggYQ%2BBayi1p7fxzq41%2Ba6RCJagqPHV=Fw@mail.gmail.com> <6E057FD0-9054-44CD-A806-3AFD8A7196CC@bsdimp.com> <CAGE5yCqAFqOEs_93KgojsgkOO%2B3LVTrhX6%2BRg_BS9OLMxbcfMA@mail.gmail.com> <D99F95A3-81D2-47D5-8D4F-D3CCBEB251EE@bsdimp.com> <CAGE5yCratkaVjAsyJZz=zPKxAWpCnFyjjULWeUU_MSxN-_yTJA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOfDtXNWva%2BKY6G_%2Ba0e158AA%2BNVrSvcvJ3=bzx%2B1cRsB=t=DQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHSQbTBNR3TwHifDN1p5t=tHwvNRYSY-KgVxPeM=FENE2mZwwA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOfDtXMgX1VT38yhjPOJvVo60fzpdNfa1tYCBpt2gBRp8LbzVg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:20:13PM +0200, Robert Millan 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 ;-) > The FSF cannot stop Debian from importing the FreeBSD code into Debian's libutil tree. There needs to be no asignment of copyright. -- Steve
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