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- From: Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw dot cz>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:00:57 +0200
- Subject: Locale copyright assignments
- References: <20120420110821.GM24309@machine.or.cz>
Hi!
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13968
> (Patch slightly fixed up.)
>
> Add new locale mag_IN.
>
> Ok to commit?
>
> 2012-04-20 Chandan Kumar <chandankumar.093047@gmail.com>
>
> [BZ#13968]
> * locales/mag_IN: New file.
> * SUPPORTED (SUPPORTED-LOCALES): Add appropriate entry.
I just realized that I did not check whether the author has copyright
assignment with FSF. Is our policy to require copyright assignments for
locales as well? I'm wondering since it seems this has not been the
practice up to now, though it would be good if someone with access
to the assignment list could check.
P.S.: The GNU maintainer manual also mentions at
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html#Legally-Significant
tracking of legal significance of minor changes, writing "(tiny patch)"
in the ChangeLog etc. This is certainly not the current glibc practice.
To be clear, I'm not seeking to adopt it since I'm all for minimalizing
bureaucracy. But we should perhaps have a clear understanding of our
practices in this area now that many people are committing changes.
Petr "Pasky" Baudis