Ok I was wrong. Maybe you could contact John Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), because I 'm not an English native speaker and I don't understand all the juridic terms. I also think that the goodness of the question often makes the goodness of the answer.
Best regards, Francois Poulain Le dimanche 09 avril 2006 à 21:49 -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise a écrit : > François Poulain wrote: > > > If I'm right, here are copyright assignments to FSF for the Microchip's > > contributions for GCC. > > Unfortunately, this is not good enough. A copyright assignment is a > formal contract that must be physically signed and sent to the FSF. See > <http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal> for details. > > Since as far as I can tell John Elliot has not attempted to include his > changes in the official FSF GCC, it is very that he has a copyright > assignment. Any work based on work by him would require an assignment > from him also--and most likely his employer, Microchip. > > There is an official list somewhere of who has copyright assignments on > file. Alternately, whatever work he has done were thought to be > valuable, someone could just email him and ask. :) >