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Re: Porting ecos on at91 eb01 board
- To: harri dot siirtola at vtt dot fi
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Porting ecos on at91 eb01 board
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 19:35:54 +0100
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com, carl at openfuel dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <3.0.32.20010706092106.00a09b10@vttmail.vtt.fi>
harri.siirtola@vtt.fi wrote:
>
> At 16:57 5.7.2001 +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >If you are stating that you're putting the files into the public domain,
> >that would avoid the assignment itself. But when I talked about the
> >assignment, I was also including the "disclaimer" part which has to be
> >signed by your employer. This is needed because most people's contracts in
> >the software industry say that all intellectual property belongs to the
> >employer. This is even true of universities. So we'd really need that at
> >least from both of you.
>
> If I understand this correctly, public domain is the easiest way, isn't it?
> I'll check if my company requires the assignment way.
It's more a case of your company officially disclaiming any ownership - a
verbal agreement between you and them won't help us in future if for some
reason they changed their mind (or e.g. were bought and the new management
had different opinions) and enforced their IP for some reason.
> >We can still put together a tarball that is distributed separately, but it
> >wouldn't be able to go in the eCos sources properly meaning it may be
> >subject to bitrot.
>
> True, let's try to do this so that it helps people next year, too...
Yep, that's best for the whole community.
Jifl
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