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Re: How do you like eCos


Jifl,

	I apologize for my rash note.  I was unaware that the lawyers
were mucking up the progress.  So, in general, all contributed
code needs to get the OK from the law staff?  Now I truly have
a reason to hate lawyers! :-}

Steve	

Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 
> Stephen Polkowski wrote:
> >
> >         For instance,  Fabrice Gautier has been very active in
> > publishing changes for the Intel platform.  Three or four
> > months ago he wrote a patch for the 386 PCI support.  He also
> > contributed several other changes for the 386.  None of these
> > changes have been promoted to CVS source tree.  Why?$$
> 
> Because large changes like that need a copyright assignment and although he
> has sent one, it still has not been processed by Red Hat's legal
> department. The reason it has not been processed is our responsibility,
> admittedly. We've already tried to chase it up here a few times. We'll try
> again.
> 
> Jifl
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