Re: Request: srand48/ drand48

[Jim Meyering]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Stefan Bienert wrote:
>> > I need a fallback implementation of srand48 and drand48 for my GPL project
>> > to compile with mingw32 for a certain operating system.
>> >
>> > Is there a chance that this can be put into a near-by-future revision of
>> > Gnulib?
>>
>> Richard Jones worked on precisely that, back in October:
>>
>>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/15494
>>
>> I'm not sure what the status is now.
>
> Last I looked I was still trying to get Red Hat to sign the
> appropriate documents so I could contribute code to the FSF.  (Even
> though we have a blanket agreement with the FSF ...)  It's all a bit
> messed up.

Hi Rich,

Are you sure you need that?

Did you see this?

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/16682/focus=16693
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    Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:34:01 -0600
    Message-Id: <address@hidden>
    From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)

    ...
    Well, I'm not from the FSF, but I can confirm it anyway, since that is
    exactly what I just asked the copyright-clerk :).

    As long as the work was done as an employee rather than on your own
    time, RH's global assignment covers you and no separate papers are
    necessary.