Re: [avr-gcc-list] Porting Atmel patches

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Porting Atmel patches
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> Georg-Johann Lay <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Notice you must have passed the paperwork.
> 
> Well, don't you think that adding support for a new AVR device would
> consist a simple change that doesn't require the full paperwork?
> 
> I think it's always a good idea for a potential contributor to file
> the paperwork, but for a change like this one, I don't see a reason to
> hold it back until the copyright assignment has been fully handled by
> FSF (which could take its time, as you know ...).

The FSF only allows changes of 10 lines or less in a patch, if there is no 
copyright assignment on file.

We really can't get around this.