[ECOS] RE: MORE TCP if_quicc.c -- various bug fixes

["Jon Hartley" <jdh at cea dot com dot au>]

I apologise for not getting to this earlier. I will endeavour to send the
copyright assignment form out asap.

Jon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Schuilenburg [mailto:alexs@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 8:21 PM
> To: jdh@cea.com.au
> Cc: ecos-maintainers
> Subject: Re: MORE TCP if_quicc.c -- various bug fixes
>
>
> Hi Jon
>
> Back in July you posted a patch to fix an mbuf problem to
> ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com:
>    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2001-07/msg00089.html
>
> We thank you very much for the contribution.
>
> We have since been informed by a number of people on the net and
> in-house that
> these patches fixed their problems and should be integrated into the eCos
> mainstream sources.  We would very much like to do this,
> acknowledging you for
> your contribution and allowing the community in turn to benefit
> from your patches.
>
> Unfortunately the eCos maintainers have deemed your patch too large to be
> accepted into the eCos mainstream sources without a signed code
> assignment from
> from you. Only after we receive an assignment form from you can
> we legally
> include your patch.
>
> This is necessary to avoid any possible confusion over the legal
> ownership of
> eCos, and to indemnify Red Hat and all eCos users against
> copyright or patent
> claims on contributed code used within eCos. Red Hat would be especially
> vulnerable, but all users and their eCos based applications could
> be affected.
> This agreement gives Red Hat ownership of your changes but
> promises that you
> will retain the right to use your contributed changes as you see fit.
>
> Further information regarding code assignment, including template
> assignment
> forms, can be found at:
>    http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/assign.html
>
> If you have any questions or concerns over the assignment, please do not
> hesitate to contact either ecos-maintainers@redhat.com or myself.
>
> If you do not intend to contribute the patch back to the
> community (which would
> be a real shame), please could you let us also know. We would
> also like to know
> your concerns or reasons for not doing so.
>
> Thanks
> -- Alex
>
>
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