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

[Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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?

I think whatever works better for you folks will be fine.  We just
want to be able to review what will actually be going in.