Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 13 02:45, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> >> >> >> If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are
> >> >> >> primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself.
> >> >> >> They are nice, but not necessary.
> >> >> 
> >> >> > I am honest with myself. I, as everyone have limited time.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Seems like the limit on your time is very laxed.
> >> >> For the time you wrote all the posts to this list, I've downloaded whole
> >> >> Cygwin /cvs/src, found the offended string, patched the file, and it took me 2
> >> >> days to rebuild it only because I wasn't familiar with out-of-the tree build
> >> >> system. (Had to read building instructions first, yeah...)
> >> >> Now, I'm a happy owner of a custom cygpath that doesn't annoy me with
> >> >> insignificant warnings.
> >> 
> >> > Wanna send the patch to cygwin-patches(*)?
> >> 
> >> I'm not quite happy with it yet. I'll need to dig through that function
> >> another pass to see, if I can completely avoid the code path in question
> >> without harming any hamsters in process.
> 
> > I'm *so* glad you're sympathetic with the hamsters.  They have build
> > their lair inside of cygpath alreasy years ago, so I would not like
> > to disturb them.
> 
> I knew you love them too.
> 
> >> Besides, when I digged through it, I got an idea of completely new
> >> functionality. That may be the one I want to contribute.
> 
> > As for new functionality and non-trivial patches, I'm sorry but we
> > still need the copyright assignment in this case.  I know that people
> > are shying away from it, so I hope there still some who don't...
> 
> > See http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, the "Before you get started" section.
> 
> I honestly don't care. I do not understand whole tantrum around
> "copyright", "copywrong" and other "copyleft".
> What the hell you can do about it? Pick a spoon, crack my head open and drain
> it out of my brain?
> Whatever I release to the public, I mainly do that under WTF PL.

Unfortunately that won't work.  For direct patches to the cygwin DLL
and tools code we need the copyright assignment, sorry.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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