I found that the copyright assignment process was more burdensome than I expected (in particular, the request for employer signoff), so I abandoned the attempt. Please go ahead and close this bug, if nobody wants to attempt to implement a fix from scratch.
Thanks (and apologies for the delayed reply), STL On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 1:34 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Stephan, I'm following up on GNU grep Bug#28303 > <https://debbugs.gnu.org/28083> dated 2017-08-13, which ends with this > email from you dated 2019-12-31: > > > I'd still like to > > get this patch in, so let's restart. I kept my branch around and the > patch > > rebased cleanly (with a trivial merge to NEWS). I'll email the FSF this > > week. > > I don't see any record of your assigning copyright to the FSF since > then, which means your patch still isn't in GNU grep. If you're still > interested in getting it done please let us know, and we can restart the > process again. >
