On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:24:57PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help >> Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify >> that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do >> that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? >[...] >> I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for >> contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time >> for someone to come up with an online way to do this. > >My employer authorized the release into the public domain, making the >code explicitly not protected by copyright. The lawyer-types don't >trust the assignments though, so online forms therefore wouldn't help >anyway. If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get >it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and >don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it.
And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...? 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/
