From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GSvyg-00050B-Mk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:31:02 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSvyf-000506-Ee for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:31:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSvyc-0004yU-MD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:31:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSvyc-0004yN-In for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:30:58 -0400 Received: from [194.109.24.24] (helo=smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GSw3i-0004Xz-0P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:36:14 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k8SDUuIR014669 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:30:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1159443706.451bb4fad4e1a@imp6-g19.free.fr> <87hcys9k6r.fsf@night.trouble.net> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:38:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hcys9k6r.fsf@night.trouble.net> (Johan Rydberg's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:47:56 +0200") Message-ID: <87ven81579.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Grub for ia64 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:31:01 -0000 Johan Rydberg 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