Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:39:26PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> A proposal to change the glibc copyright assignment policy is being 
> circulated on libc-alpha. The email thread starts at 
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-June/127581.html>, and 
> the text of the email seeking input is at the end of this message.
> 
> I'm sending this to bug-gnulib because we copy some files directly from 
> glibc and eventually I expect these files to be affected. The simplest 
> approach I see for Gnulib is to adopt glibc's policy, at least for files 
> or code copied from glibc.

Here is the list of affected gnulib modules:

$ git grep -A1 ^Maintainer: modules/ | sed -n '/glibc/ s/-[^-]*$//p'
modules/alphasort
modules/argp
modules/atoll
modules/crypto/md5
modules/crypto/md5-buffer
modules/dynarray
modules/eloop-threshold
modules/error
modules/euidaccess
modules/filename
modules/fnmatch
modules/fnmatch-h
modules/getcwd
modules/getopt-gnu
modules/getopt-posix
modules/getpass
modules/getpass-gnu
modules/getsubopt
modules/glob
modules/glob-h
modules/idx
modules/inet_ntop
modules/inet_pton
modules/memchr
modules/memcmp
modules/memrchr
modules/mktime
modules/nstrftime
modules/obstack
modules/posix_spawn
modules/posix_spawn-internal
modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose
modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2
modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy
modules/posix_spawn_file_actions_init
modules/posix_spawnattr_destroy
modules/posix_spawnattr_getflags
modules/posix_spawnattr_getpgroup
modules/posix_spawnattr_getschedparam
modules/posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy
modules/posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault
modules/posix_spawnattr_getsigmask
modules/posix_spawnattr_init
modules/posix_spawnattr_setflags
modules/posix_spawnattr_setpgroup
modules/posix_spawnattr_setschedparam
modules/posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy
modules/posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault
modules/posix_spawnattr_setsigmask
modules/posix_spawnp
modules/pt_chown
modules/putenv
modules/random
modules/random_r
modules/rawmemchr
modules/scandir
modules/scratch_buffer
modules/spawn
modules/stpcpy
modules/stpncpy
modules/strchrnul
modules/strcspn
modules/strdup
modules/strdup-posix
modules/strndup
modules/strpbrk
modules/strptime
modules/strsignal
modules/strtok_r
modules/strtol
modules/strtoll
modules/strtoul
modules/strtoull
modules/strverscmp
modules/timegm
modules/tsearch


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