On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 14/09/16 10:41 -0700, Cong Wang wrote: >> >> For long term, I think gcc should have something as simple as >> 'Signed-off-by' for Linux kernel, otherwise too much work for first-time >> contributors like me. We all want to save time on this, don't we? ;) > > > Signed-off-by wouldn't help. The copyright assignment is done so that > the FSF owns the copyright in the majority of the GCC code. If I add > a Signed-off-by to your patch that doesn't have any effect on your > copyright of the code. > > It certainly does add a hurdle for contributors to GCC, but it's not a > policy that is likely to change. > > Anyway, I'll fix this one way or another ASAP. Thanks again.
Thanks for your kind explanation. I think I already finish the copyright thing after exchanging emails with ass...@gnu.org. So copyright is not a blocker for consideration of my patch any more.
