Re: Copyright assigments for the GNU system.

[Marco Gerards]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> this might be a bit early, but it will still have to be done some day.
> How should copyright assigments be handled for the GNU system? By GNU
> system I mean tools like the package manager/builder, installer, etc.
> Not things like GCC, Emacs, etc.  In short, tools that we will
> develop.
>
> Should it be one project that people assign their copyright for, or
> several small ones?  The latter might be more work for the FSF staff,
> I don't know.

To me it seems the best to bundle those projects like it was done for
coreutils.  I don't see the advantage of having some separate
projects, while they are maintained by the same group of people and
are tightly connected.

> How should things that we canniablaise from other projects be handled?
> Like right now I'm cannabialising Nick Moffitt's code from GAR.  The
> code I will write will be easy to transfer the copyright for, but I
> have no idea about Nick's code... Haven't asked him yet either.

If you are using his code and if you want people to assign copyrights,
better ask Nick. :)

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Marco