> -----Original Message----- > From: > avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel....@nongnu.org > [mailto:avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel....@nongnu. > org] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:49 AM > To: avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] 8-bit relocations on AVR > > Andrew Zabolotny <z...@homelink.ru> 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 _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
