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Re: Red Hat and FSF Copyrights
- From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- To: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- Cc: Andy Jackson <andy at grapevinetech dot co dot uk>, eCos discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Red Hat and FSF Copyrights
- References: <433A9E0D.2080800@eCosCentric.com> <013b01c70e61$1c41a830$6f01a8c0@Kimbara> <456496EB.6040102@eCosCentric.com>
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 18:28 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Andy Jackson wrote:
> > Whilst browsing through old posts, I came across this one - what is the
> > current situation, as I don't recall hearing anything recently?
>
> Unfortunately there have been difficulties with arranging a copyright
> assignment contract from eCosCentric to the FSF so "transferred shortly"
> was evidently optimistic :-|. The ball is at present in their court, but, I
> suspect due to many legal activities and GPLv3, their legal department's
> workload appears to be quite heavy since the turnaround has been slower
> than expected (being diplomatic I won't go into detail).
>
> I have been actively pursuing this and am continuing to do so. In saying
> that, it's probably about time for me to ping them again anyway.
>
Even so, any reason why we can't go ahead and change the copyright
notices from "(c) Red Hat" to "(c) FSF"?
--Mark
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