RE: [ECOS] EB40A port is done!

[Doug Fraser <dfraser at photuris dot com>]

Even if you contribute directly to www.gnu.org you need
to perform a copywrite assignment and possibly provide
a disclaimer signed by your employer.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_7.html#SEC7

So, no, simply having GPL'ed the code does not absolve the
maintainer from this responsibility. Having non-assigned
copywrites poisons GPL'ed code.

Doug Fraser

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Dattalo [mailto:scott@dattalo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:45 PM
> Cc: ecos-discuss (E-Mail)
> Subject: RE: [ECOS] EB40A port is done!
> 
> 
> On 16 Jul 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 03:30, Koeller, T. wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > 
> > 
> > BTW, have you filed the copyright release/assignment forms for your
> > contributions?  At the moment, we can't incorporate anything into
> > the public repository without them.  For more details see:
> >     http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos?file=47
> > and for the actual forms:
> >     http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/assign.html
> > 
> > note: we hope to make some changes in this area to simplify things,
> > but that is still in the future.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> Not to complain, but now that eCos is GPL'd doesn't this 
> obviate the need 
> for any kind of adhoc copyright re-assignment?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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