Re: iconvme sync

[Simon Josefsson]

"Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> "Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>>On Friday, September 02, 2005 at 15:17, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>>It seems iconvme.[ch] was updated in gnulib a few days ago; it used to
>>>>>be synced from libc.  Are there libc bug reports or anything to
>>>>>associate with this, or are we just forked?
>>>>
>>>>Oops, I had forgot we were synced.  Oskar, do you want to file a glibc
>>>>bug report for your iconvme changes, and include the patch?  Be sure
>>>>to mention gnulib.  I can do it if it is troublesome for you, but not
>>>>before Tuesday.
>>>
>>>Hmm, another problem. I've signed a copyright assignment for Gnulib,
>>>but not for GNU libc. I guess that needs to be signed as well first?
>> I don't know, I don't think that would be required, although I admit
>> it is unclear.  The files are shared among several projects, so papers
>> for one ought to be sufficient me thinks.  Others?
>> Iconvme originate from GNU Libidn, but you haven't signed assignment
>> for that either, and requiruing that seem too much.
>
> If everyone that contributes code to gnulib has to do the paperwork
> for every other GNU project that might import and redistribute that
> code, the paperwork would fast become completely unmanagable.  There
> is at least an implied agreement that gnulib contributions can be
> used elsewhere... otherwise gnulib is effectively useless.

However, in this case, we are effectively making glibc the "source"
project, and gnulib is importing the files from glibc.  So any
contribution for glibc files is for glibc, and then gnulib borrow
them.

But I have never understood why one has to sign per-projects form for
the FSF anyway...

/Simon