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

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

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:48 -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi, Ryan.  The EGLIBC repository policy permits code not assigned to
> the FSF on branches, but only FSF-assigned code on the trunk.  So I
> think IBM should go ahead and commit libdfp to a branch in the EGLIBC
> repository, under some appropriate name under
> svn+ssh://eglibc/org/branches.  (If you have any Subversion usage
> questions, let me know.)  Then we can review and revise from there,
> get things approved, get things assigned, and then merge to trunk.

Thanks Jim,

Peter, Any ETA on when we could get libdfp into it's own branch?

Jim I assume we can do the basefile override -> conditional code changes
in the branch as well or would you like to see a first draft checked
into the branch first?

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center
Linux Toolchain Development