Request to Create account for contribution

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

On Wed,  7 May 2025 15:14, Sachin T said:

> I hope you’re doing well. I need to register an account to contribute
> patches related to IBM z/OS platform

Done.

> As part of the zOpen community https://github.com/zopencommunity),
> where we work on porting open-source tools to z/OS.  As part of this

And I though we don't need that anymore due to the available of Linux on
thatatform.  In fact some very old code to handle EBCDIC has already
been removed and we meanwhile assume UTF-8 encoding for everything.

I had a quick look at some patches and I am missing any documentation
for the patches.   Random example:

     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_CONNECT_AGENT:
-      X(bindir, "tools", "gpg-connect-agent");
+#if __MVS__
+       X(bindir, "bin", "gpg-connect-agent");
+#else
+       X(bindir, "tools", "gpg-connect-agent");
+#endif
 
Why do you need to change this?  The second arg is the build directory
and only used for internal build and regression test purposes.

Patches like

-     (pipe:gpg `(--yes -ea --recipient ,usrname2))
+     (pipe:gpg `(--yes -ea --recipient ,usrname2 --trust-model always))

Are not useful because that can't be a platform issue.  A patch to
configure is a no-go becuase configure is a built file.

   AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,
-     AC_CHECK_LIB(z, deflateInit2_,
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(z, deflate,

Is also not good because it breaks on existing platforms.  You need to
test for deflate only after you checked that deflateInit2_ does not exists.

The patches seem to be under a BSD license.  We can't accept this.  The
whole thing seems to be under Apache 2.0 License - this is incompatible
to the GPL; sorry.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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