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[Gomp-discuss] Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being
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[Gomp-discuss] Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed? |
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Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:24:47 -0700 |
In message <address@hidden>, Steven Bosscher writes:
>Op wo 12-02-2003, om 05:38 schreef address@hidden:
>> In message <address@hidden>, Diego Novill
>o wr
>> ites:
>> >[ From a discussion in gomp-discuss ]
>> >
>> >On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> >
>> >> Diego, is it allowed to act in the mean time as if he does have an
>> >> assignment? It's on a branch, maybe it's not such a big deal as for
>> >> main line especially when everybody knows all the paper work is in the
>> >> pipeline.
>> >>
>> >I believe that to be the case, but I'm not sure.
>> >
>> >Can anybody confirm that I'm not talking nonsense? A couple of
>> >developers for the new gomp-branch are in the process of filing
>> >their FSF copyright forms.
>> >
>> >Could they still contribute patches to the branch while the
>> >paperwork is being processed?
>> I *strongly* recommend against this. In fact, please please please
>> don't do it. Code without proper assignments should never get into
>> our source base, even on a branch.
>
>I understand why you feel about it this way. But in this case maybe an
>exception could be made, for the following reasons.
No. Not even in this case.
>It would help if there was some way to speed up this copyright
>assignment process. For g95, we would send our copyright assignments to
>the project maintainer, so he could accept our contributions and forward
>the paper work. Maybe such a solution should be considered for GCC as
>well, i.e. an SC member would collect copyright assignments and forward
>them to the FSF? Or is there more to it than just putting a date, name
>and signature at the bottom of those forms?
I used to do this kind of stuff, but when RMS stopped cooperating, I
stopped spending my time dealing with copyright paperwork. If you're
unhappy with the state of how the FSF handles copyrights, then take it
up with RMS and the FSF.
jeff
[Gomp-discuss] Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?, Tom Tromey, 2003/02/12
[Gomp-discuss] Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?, tm_gccmail, 2003/02/12