Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First a few legal comments. I poked through the patches, and it seems > that there are a few files that are copyrighted by Hewlett-Packard and > David Mosberger-Tang. All developers of GNU GRUB has agreed to sign > over their copyright to FSF, so brining non-FSF copyrighted code into > the project is a problem (and likely a show-stopper).
If code from third parties is used it will be a show stopper, especially in such cases. > There are also a few files that are released under LGPL. Maintainers, > are there any problems with bringing such files into GNU GRUB? What do you mean by that? Code written for the IA64 port or brought in from elsewhere? > Have you signed over copyright to FSF for your work on GNU GRUB? In > other words, have you sent in an assignment record to FSF? If not, > let us know and we'll send you a request record. Okuji or me will talk to contributors off-list usually about such issues, so that won't be a problem. > Anyhow, when I get a few more minutes over I'll try to review your > patches more in depth. Thanks a lot for doing this! > I do not know if there is a policy for how to contribute code to GRUB, > but please send unified diffs (-u) instead of context diffs (-c). I > at least find them easier to read. Like mentioned in the other emails, I want unified diffs (diff -up) inlined in the email with a Changelog entry. This is correctly picked up in the patch in the other thread so I am confident it will work out fine for the port as well. :-) -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
