Hi all, After some discussion with Red Hat legal and the current committers we finally have a contributor policy in place for elfutils so Red Hat doesn't have to hold all rights to the project. We made the following changes:
- The official project name changed from "Red Hat elfutils" to plain "elfutils". - The license for the backends and the libraries changed from GPLv2 + exception to GPLv2/LGPLv3+. The license for the standalone tools was upgraded from GPLv2 to GPLv3+. - All future commits should carry a Signed-off-by line to confirm that the contributor agrees to the project licensing rules described in the Developer's Certificate of Origin. All authors keep their own copyright. Below is the commit message that implements the above changes and attached is the new CONTRIBUTING file that includes the Developer's Certificate of Origin all contributors need to agree to by signing their patches with a Signed-off-by line (git -s). The changes were also merged into the portable, robustify, relocate and dwarf branches. Please let us know if you think you spot a mistake or we missed something. My plan is to do an elfutils 0.154 release next week with the above changes and the accumulated fixes since 0.153 after running some tests on various setups. Please let me know if you have any bugs that need to be fixed before doing a release. Thanks, Mark commit de2ed97f33139af5c7a0811e4ec66fc896a13cf2 Author: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> Date: Tue Jun 5 17:15:16 2012 +0200 Update name, license and contributor policy. * Change name from "Red Hat elfutils" to "elfutils". * Update license of standalone tools and test from GPLv2 to GPLv3+. * Change license of libraries from GPLv2+exception to GPLv2/LGPLv3+. * Add Developer Certificate of Origin based contributor policy. top-level: - COPYING: Upgraded from GPLv2 to GPLv3. - CONTRIBUTING, COPYING-GPLv2, COPYING-LGPLv3: New files. - NEWS: Added note about new contribution and license policy. - Makefile.am: Updated to GPLv3, added new files to EXTRA_DIST. - configure.ac: Update to GPLv3, changed AC_INIT name to 'elfutils'. backends, lib, libasm, libcpu, libdw, libdwfl, libebl, libelf: - All files updated to GPLv2/LGPLv3+. Except some very small files (<5 lines) which didn't have any headers at all before, the linker .maps files and the libcpu/defs files which only contain data and libelf/elf.h which comes from glibc and is under LGPLv2+. config: - elfutils.spec.in: Add new License: headers and new %doc files. - Update all license headers to GPLv2/LGPLv3+ for files used by libs. src, tests: - All files updated to GPLv3+. Except for the test bz2 data files, the linker maps and script files and some very small files (<5 lines) that don't have any headers. Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
The project homepage is at https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/ The current elfutils source code can be checked out with git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/elfutils.git The developer mailinglist to send patches to is [email protected]. https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/elfutils-devel Please supply patches using git format-patch or using git send-email. Sign your work To facilitate tracking of who did what, we've adopted a "sign-off" procedure for patches based on the procedure used by the Linux kernel project. The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as a patch under an appropriate license. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below: Developer's Certificate of Origin By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me, and I have the right to submit the contribution under each license indicated in, or otherwise designated as being applicable to, the file. (b) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), and I have not modified it. (c) I understand and agree that the project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed. then you just add a line saying Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]> using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.) git commit --signoff will add such a Signed-off-by line by at the end of the commit log message for you.
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