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Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 23:37:00 GMT 2010 
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 10:48:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 01/09/2010 16:02, Alan Modra wrote:
> > You can't really contribute work done by someone else unless you have
> > their permission.  More than that, you'll need to satisfy the FSF
> > lawyers.  That means finding all the authors of the patches and having
> > them, and Atmel, go through the normal FSF copyright assignment
> > process.  
> 
>   The assignments list on fencepost suggests that Atmel have a corporate assign:
> 
> > GCC, GDB, GLIBC Atmel Corporation       2009-10-23
> > Assigns Past and Future Changes in items listed on Attachement A (see document)
> 

That's nice to see.  One of the hurdles may already be passed.

>   If I've understood that right (I have no idea where to find 'attachment a'),
> it means that anyone (with an assign of their own) could port them up to HEAD
> and submit, no?

I doubt it, but I'm not interested in wasting my time and everyone
else's time offering my useless opinion on a legal matter.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html and
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Papers

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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