On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:50:44AM +0200, Buzz wrote: >I tried not to, but... I'll bite... > >Op Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:19:11 -0400 schreef Christopher Faylor >in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:16:08AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: >: > [multiple recipients: cygwin mailing-list + Rose Naftaly at RedHat] >: > Note: This is legal stuff, many of you may want to skip this mail... >: >: Good advice. > >You could have taken it, and avoided this thread.
Are you new here? No, I couldn't avoid this thread. If I had, we could have had many people offering their IANAL, but opinions on the subject. >: > In <url:http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> it says to ask questions on >: > the mailing-list, while in <url:http://cygwin.com/assign.txt> it says >: > to send questions to R. Naftaly. Hence this (b)cc'd message. >: >: There is no reason to send legal questions here. This list will not >: resolve your grievances. Contacting the person in the contrib link >: is the correct way to do this. > >Did you read what you are replying to? The contrib page states: >| Here is our standard assignment form for changes to Cygwin that >| you can fill out, sign, and send back. It shouldn't end up being >| that much of a pain. If you have any questions, please send them >| to the cygwin mailing list. > >Should this text be modified? Yes. I apologize. I had not read the contrib page in a while. I was not paying close enough attention. >: Lets not discuss this here any further. There is no reason to subject >: the cygwin mailing list to Red Hat specific legal questions. We don't >: need a bunch of IANAL's wasting bandwidth with their expert legal >: opinions. > >Nobody was discussing this, nor requesting any discussion of this. >I agree there is nothing to discuss. Let's wait for the response from >the Red Hat legal department. I just mailed this here FYI. When you send messages to a mailing list, you invite discussion. That is why we have mailing lists. Now I have modified both pages to make it clear that you don't send questions for Red Hat's lawyers here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
