Re: [patches] Fw: What license is acceptable for libdecnumber

["Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim, 

I can answer these questions.

You can review the code on:

penguinppc.org/dev/glibc/dfp.html.

The license is currently LGPLv2.  The code on penguinppc.org is
necessarily IBM copyright (because we aren't giving it up if no-one
wants it) though we all have FSF copyright assignment and we intend to
assign copyright to FSF once it's accepted into EGLIBC.

Regard,

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center
Linux Toolchain Development

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:33 -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Peter A Eberlein <eberlein@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Also I would like to check in the libdfp code that we currently have. What is
> > the recommended process for doing this? Do I need to get permission, or do I
> > just svn check in the code and send an email to eglibc-patches? Just so you
> > know, the libdfp addon will not build until there is a libdecnumber to go with
> > it.
> 
> I think it makes sense to get it reviewed before committing.  I assume
> it's pretty big; if you can post a link to the code so folks can look
> it over, we can get things started.
> 
> What is the license on libdfp itself?  The ideal would be LGPLv2, to
> match the rest of EGLIBC.  Has its copyright been assigned to the FSF?
> 
> For what it's worth, I hear EGLIBC's own v3 transition is waiting on
> some policy decisions from the FSF, with no definite timeline.