libutil in Debian

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:20:13PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2013/7/9 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org>:
> > What about importing the necessary functions into the glibc libutil for
> > Debian?  This way it stays as libutil, and if glibc imports the functions to
> > itself there's less to worry about.  If glibc's libutil started out life as
> > libbsdcompat, then I think it would be appropriate to merge as needed.
> 
> Even assuming they'd agree, which is unlikely, FSF would require
> copyright assignment paperwork, to be signed and physically mailed by
> each contributor. This would apply to future updates as well.
> 
> The paper itself is no big deal (author retains the right to license
> the software under any terms they wish), but hunting down contributors
> to persuade them to sign the papers is definitely not what I had in
> mind when I started this thread ;-)
> 

The FSF cannot stop Debian from importing the FreeBSD code
into Debian's libutil tree.  There needs to be no asignment
of copyright.

-- 
Steve