To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] timegm: add portable implementation (Solaris support)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:03:42 +0300."
	<m2bo4sfixt.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> 
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:29:27 -0700
Message-ID: <27223.1377016167@foo.net>
From: Blake Jones <blakej@foo.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Vladimir Marek <vlmarek@volny.cz>
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> The copyright header gives FSF "owner"ship to the file -- which would
> be fine by the project -- but does assigning copyright to the FSF work
> like this...  ... I started to look around and found (among other
> pages) this:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=doc/Copyright/conditions.text;h=6e19adf0233900c9169
> e10fe7e0aa8d1feb73996;hb=HEAD
> 
> Maybe for liability reasons FSF needs more than just stating the
> copyright at the beginning of file... I don't know -- but if this is
> the case maybe the easiest thing is to remove (amend) the Copyright
> line out of the file.

I don't really care what sort of copyright it has.  Vladimir is the one
with the up-to-date tree at this point, so he would be best positioned
to update the text with whatever works best for the rest of notmuch.

> In getline.c, and getdelim.c the code is taken from glibc. What I've 
> understood this timegm.c is new art ?

To the best of my recollection, yes, I implemented this version of
timegm() from scratch, based on my understanding of what it needed to
do.

Blake