Re: How to check copyright assignment papers?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >> What is the best way for me to check if a person has signed
> >> copyright papers for Emacs (and which kind of papers) in case I
> >> want to apply a patch of that person?
> >
> > Connect to fencepost and read or grep copyright.list:
> >
> >    grep Hannu /gd/gnuorg/copyright.list
> 
> Ah, so I would need an account on fencepost.  Hmm, maybe I'll just
> ask someone who does when the occasion arises.

Any reason why this file isn't available from public FTP somewhere in
the GNU hierarchy?  Downloading this file from a local mirror of GNU
here in Europe is usually *much* faster than logging into fencepost.


    Werner