On 23/08/14 04:45, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Now, about upstreaming the patch: Qt has a CLA in which you *don't*
>> loose your
>> copyright but just give permission to Digia to use it in it's commercial
>> product (the code remains FLOSS!). I have two ways of pushing this
>> upstream:
>>
>> - Find the original coder and beg him to push it to upstream's gerrit
>> instance
>> (preferred)
>>
>> - Find the original coder and beg him to publicly state (on a mailing
>> list,
>> for example) that this patch is licensed under a BSD license, which is
>> less
>> restrictive.
>>
>> We don't want to have deltas, so I *really* need your help here.
>
> William,
>
> AFAICT from Ubuntu's qt4-x11 changelog, you seem to be the patch author.
> May you please consider the points above?
>
> Only one chunk seems to be required. The 'PLATFORM=qws/' chunk can be
> dropped and the UNAME chunk can be moved to another Debian patch.
>
> @@ -3277,7 +3280,7 @@ if [ -z "${CFG_HOST_ARCH}" ]; then
> fi
> CFG_HOST_ARCH=powerpc
> ;;
> - *:*:ppc64)
> + *:*:ppc64*)
> if [ "$OPT_VERBOSE" = "yes" ]; then
> echo " 64-bit PowerPC (powerpc)"
> fi
I'm the author of
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/159898800/qt4-x11_4%3A4.8.4%2Bdfsg-0ubuntu20_4%3A4.8.4%2Bdfsg-0ubuntu21.diff.gz.
I don't know where the '*64*' bits in the attachments here came from.
I'm waiting for the CLA stuff to be approved, but once that's sorted out
I'll submit it upstream. I hardly thought it seemed copyrightable, but I
guess it's easier this way.
William.
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