* Richard Kenner:
>> This is probably true for a country like the USA, but like FX
>> the FSF didn't ask a disclaimer from my employer: in France
>> as long as you don't use your employer ressources to contribute
>> your employer has absolutely no say on what you do outside your work.
>
> That's t
Then I suggest changing our contribute page from
contact us (either via the gcc@gcc.gnu.org list or the GCC maintainer
that is taking care of your contributions) to obtain the relevant forms
to
contact us (either via the gcc@gcc.gnu.org list or a GCC Steering
Commitee member) to obtain the
Moreover, our contribute page says "the GCC maintainer that is
taking care of your contributions" and there is no documentation
to maintainers, so that part at least is wrong: maintainers don't
know what to do. Or else, I just didn't receive the maintainer
welcome package including the appr
FX Coudert wrote:
Moreover, our contribute page says "the GCC maintainer that is taking
care of your contributions" and there is no documentation to
maintainers, so that part at least is wrong: maintainers don't know what
to do. Or else, I just didn't receive the maintainer welcome package
inc
On 07/04/2008, FX Coudert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Then, I think the FSF has no solution but to discard contributions from
> quite a few people. How many employers actually are going to issue such a
> disclaimer? In all academic places I know, at least, you'll never get
> anything like that,
FX Coudert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> That's true in the US as well, but what happens later on if your
>> employer
>> comes by later on and claims you DID use employer resources? Where
>> would
>> that leave the FSF? Very few employees have deep enough pockets to
>> indemnify the FSF from th
I'm afraid I have to ask to remove the form from that Wiki. :-(
You're welcome to remove it yourself, but please replace them with
appropriate, *clear* documentation of the copyright assignment
process. The recent past (including my own experience some years ago)
has shown that http://gcc.
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > This is probably true for a country like the USA, but like FX
> > the FSF didn't ask a disclaimer from my employer: in France
> > as long as you don't use your employer ressources to contribute
> > your employer has absolutely no say on w
That's true in the US as well, but what happens later on if your
employer
comes by later on and claims you DID use employer resources? Where
would
that leave the FSF? Very few employees have deep enough pockets to
indemnify the FSF from their employer!
Then, I think the FSF has no solution
> This is probably true for a country like the USA, but like FX
> the FSF didn't ask a disclaimer from my employer: in France
> as long as you don't use your employer ressources to contribute
> your employer has absolutely no say on what you do outside your work.
That's true in the US as well, but
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:40 -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:09:35PM +0100, FX wrote:
> > The web page documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
> > doesn't really have the specifics of getting a copyright assignment
> > done in the simple case of an individual contribu
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, FX wrote:
> The web page documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
> doesn't really have the specifics of getting a copyright assignment
> done in the simple case of an individual contributing on his free
> time. I've set up a wiki page that we can refer people to, at
> This page has a major problem. The FSF wants the employer disclaimer
> in all cases.
The process that I describe is the one I went through, and other
people as well to my knowledge. If you (truthfully) answer "no" to the
question about employer/university ownership claims, I don't think
they
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:09:35PM +0100, FX wrote:
> > The web page documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
> > doesn't really have the specifics of getting a copyright assignment
> > done in the simple case of an individual contributing on his free
> > time. I've set up a wiki page th
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:09:35PM +0100, FX wrote:
> The web page documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
> doesn't really have the specifics of getting a copyright assignment
> done in the simple case of an individual contributing on his free
> time. I've set up a wiki page that we ca
The web page documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
doesn't really have the specifics of getting a copyright assignment
done in the simple case of an individual contributing on his free
time. I've set up a wiki page that we can refer people to, at
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CopyrightAssig
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