Re: trivial trailing whitespace issue

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>]

Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Quoting Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>:
> > I would imagine that patching GNU indent (in its source code form)
> > requires a copyright assignment specific to it (and uncovered by a, or
> > at least "mine", GCC copyright assigment to FSF). If this is the case,
> > I [Basile] won't do it (because getting a copyright assignemnt is so
> > painful to me).
>
> If you put a patch against GNU indent in contrib to format GCC-style,
> wouldn't that then be a part of GCC and thus covered?
>
> If that is the case, then you can post afterwards this piece of FSF-owned
> GCC code to the indent maintainers...

I have no idea if that could work, and I prefer doing software tricks (which I am supposed to be able to understand, 
being a software person) to doing "legal" tricks (which I don't understand, not being a lawyer).

Regards.


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