Re: GNU Mach and GNU Hurd copyright assignment papers

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:07:49PM -0500, I wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:49:24PM -0200, cascardo@minaslivre.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:24:32AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > Gianluca Guida <glguida@gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> P.S. Gianluca, it'd probably be a good time now to request and sign
> > > >> assignment papers for GNU Mach.
> > > >
> > > > Hmph, I requested that for the Hurd and GNU Mach, but now that I look
> > > > at it, in the copyright assignment paper I signed one year ago only
> > > > GNU Hurd is mentioned.
> > > >
> > > > Is that enough? At that time, more than one people told me that GNU
> > > > Mach assignment papers weren't needed since code is not assigned to
> > > > FSF anyways.
> > > 
> > > That's what the assign@gnu.org people told me as well.
> >
> > I did sign paper for GNU Mach. Nobody told me that wasn't needed by
> > that time. It was about last August.
> 
> Nine people have signed copyright assignment papers for GNU Mach
> (beginning in 1998) and a lot more for GNU Hurd (beginning in 1994).
> 
> Some people who were requesting papers for GNU Mach during the last few
> year didn't get them, others did.
> 
> 
> I'll check this.  Right now.

Copyright assignment papers are not needed in order to get your code
added to the main GNU Mach repository.  If you want to sign them
nevertheless, you're however free to do so.

Note that this only applies to the GNU Mach repository, not to the Hurd
or glibc ones.


Regards,
 Thomas