[hellogcc] [投稿] 开始加入gnu toolchain的开发（之二）
- From: Mingjie Xing <mingjie.xing@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hellogcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:57:01 +0800
开始加入gnu toolchain的开发（之二）
向GNU提交代码，必须要签署FSF版权转让协议（copyright
assignment），这意味着你是作为贡献者将这些代码的版权归为FSF所有。这里只介绍了以个人的名义来申请签署协议和进行开发的流程，至于以公司的名义的流程，我不清楚，故没有介绍。申请签署该协议的方法为，填写如下表格，并发送给assign@xxxxxxx。
Please email the following information to assign@xxxxxxx, and we
will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes.
Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject
line of the message.
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REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES
[What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]
[Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]
[Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
your changes? Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]
[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]
[What year were you born?]
[Please write your email address here.]
[Please write your postal address here.]
[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
so far?]
FSF会通过邮递的方式将协议邮寄给你，你签名之后再邮寄回去，整个过程大约要2，3个月的时间。所以，个人觉得，如果你确定有一些patch将要提交，则可以提前进行申请，这样可以节省时间，没有必要等patch发出去，被审核（review）通过之后再申请。需要注意的是，每个GNU项目都必须是单独签订协议的，所以，如果你想同时向gcc，binutils和gdb提交代码，则需要在申请表中填写gcc，binutils，gdb三项，并会收到三份协议。
如果你在“Do you have an employer who
might...”栏下填写了“yes”。则还会寄给你一份需要你的上司来签署的协议（employer disclaimer of
rights）。
推荐使用真实的姓名。一方面，这是有法律效应的；另一方面，毕竟作贡献也是好事，没必要使用绰号。
代码以patch的方式发送到向邮件列表，经过审核通过之后，便可以被接受，并提交到版本库中。如果你打算长期参与开发，则可以申请获得版本库的写权限，这需要一些条件，比如你对项目已经很熟悉，最主要的，是需要有一位Maintainer来保荐（sponsor）你。
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