On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Øyvind Harboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Richard wrote
>>> I have been instructed we can only make the contribution if no
>>> explicit copyright claim is required. Is that acceptable?
>>
>> Is there a GPL wiz in the house?
>>
>> Can we accept anonymous contributions just like that?
>>
>> I know there are anonymous contributions in Linux.
>
> I am not a GPL wiz nor a fan of GPL.

Noted. I appreciate that you try to work constructively here even
if you don't like the license. Which you've made clear on previous
occasions.

> Just wondering if the codes can be released as public domain or other
> open source license which is compatible with GPL and
> yet accept anonymous contributions and then OpenOCD
> can take it.

This has nothing to do with license, it has to do with copyright. We need
the copyright holder to provide it under a license we can use.

We *can*, in a pinch, accept BSD license with no advertising clause, but
why that would make sense to anybody, I don't know. FUD?

> Linux's issues with anonymous contributions
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5972
>
> I think the patch is big enough to be categorized as
> "more subsantial piece of work" and not a "small patch".
>
> --
> Xiaofan
>



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