RE: [avr-gcc-list] 8-bit relocations on AVR

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
> org] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:49 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] 8-bit relocations on AVR
> 
> Andrew Zabolotny <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >> Thanks for providing this. Do you have a copyright 
> assignment on file
> >> with the FSF? That way we can commit your patch into binutils.
> 
> > No :-(
> > 
> > What do I do?
> 
> I think your contribution could still qualify as a "medium to small"
> change (given the number of lines of code changed, in comparison with
> the complexity of the entire binutils package), so you could get away
> with just a "personal disclaimer":
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html
> 
> There, you can also find the references for the copyright assignment
> procedure, which might be useful to have anyway in case you intend to
> further contribute to FSF-maintained software (binutils, GCC, GDB).
> Note that you need to sign a separate assignment for each of these.
> 
> (The article referenced is meant to instruct FSF package maintainers,
> so it's not directly targetted to contributors.)

Note that FSF's standard for a small change is 10 lines or less that are 
changed. Or typically something that is obvious. Andrew's patch seems to be a 
bit more than 10 lines, and is not necessarily an obvious change. However, it 
is not that big of a patch either. I think you're right that a personal 
disclaimer might be best.

Eric