Re: Copyright assigments for the GNU system.

[Richard Stallman]

    How should copyright assigments be handled for the GNU system? By GNU
    system I mean tools like the package manager/builder, installer, etc.

These programs would be GNU packages just as Emacs and GCC are.

    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.

We have to presume that code won't be copyright FSF.
(We can't presume he would want to assign the copyright.)

Do you need to copy code from GAR?  Could you use GAR itself?