On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Larmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> >> I took over as a maintainer after the original authors. I'd say the >> chance is slim. >> There is no manpower to hunt everybody down who contributed. > > Ugh. Yes, strictly it needs permission from all Jim copyright holders - > anyone who has contributed meaningful (i.e. copyrightable) changes. Would > it help to know that people who contribute small changes and fixes do not > need to be consulted? There has to be something amounting to a > copyrightable "work" for copyright to be relevant.
Not much. It's a lot of work just to dig through the CVS and figure out who added what. Subversion would be significantly easier, but still a lot of work. > >> Jim Tcl has an eCos repository in it's official CVS server. I haven't tried, >> but >> it should be possible to delete Jim Tcl from eCos and add the Jim Tcl >> eCos repository >> to ECOS_REPOSITORY. > > That hack does not work for configtool users, so it's not a great solution. > I'm sure you or I would be fine, but quite a lot of people use the > configtool in fact. It may be the least worst option though. > >> Jim Tcl for athttpd is optional, so only anyone using >> Jim Tcl for athttpd, would need to add Jim Tcl to ECOS_REPOSITORY. >> >> I don't know if ecosconfig would protest against the unused missing Jim Tcl >> module, but hopefully it would only produce an error if Jim Tcl was >> actually in use. > > The relevant CDL in ATHTTPD can be made "active_if CYGPKG_JIMTCL". > >> Jim Tcl, like jffs2, is used for non-eCos stuff so it needs a >> diffferent home than >> the eCos repository. ahttpd on the other hand is only for eCos. > > Sure. > >>>> http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/jim/jim/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain >>>> >>>> >>>> What's the best way forward here? >>> The policy has been before that (assuming a compatible licence!) we will >>> tolerate stuff from existing established open source projects, and as long >>> as they are self-contained. Apart from the licence issue above, Jim would >>> fit that. But any changes to Jim to port to eCos should be assigned to the >>> FSF as they are specific to eCos - the rationale being the same as for >>> assignments in general. >> >> I & Anthony wrote those. They amount to .cdl files + docs + two three #if's. > > Anthony is certainly ok, and we need to get you sorted out...... I thought my paperwork was in order! :-) > >>> Which reminds me Øyvind, where have things got to in your assignment >>> process? I believe you started on it a while back, so if there's anything >>> you want me to chase with the FSF, let me know and I can do some prodding. >>> You can mail me off-list if so. >> >> I filed off a copyright assignment years ago. Got word years ago >> that it was in order and haven't heard anything since. > > You filed a copyright assignment with Red Hat. One was not filed with > eCosCentric, nor the FSF. A Red Hat assignment is no use for recent work. > This was as announced here: > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2005-01/msg00317.html > > Has stuff written by you since 2005-01-14 been checked in? If so, that's > unfortunate. But as long as we get this sorted soon, we don't need to worry > about reverting stuff. Either way, you'll need to start the assignment > process off. > > To request an assignment form, please fill in the form at > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnulib/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future?revision=1&root=gnulib > and e-mail it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Be sure to complete the list of changed > files - that's what assigns your existing changes. How do I find out what I contributed to eCos in that period? > > Jifl > -- > eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts > Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 > Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. > ------["Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere"]------ Opinions==mine > -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer
