Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/09/14:33:44
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and
>>sign the copyright assignment, sigh),
>
>Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much
>easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my
>company), thus my approach. I had actually made some progress with the
>assignment, but it went back to ground zero when my old group was
>disbanded.
But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. I did
ask the Red Hat lawyer if accepting public domain sources was ok and he
said "Yes, but..." 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. I asked a (very) technically
savvy lawyer acquaintance about this once and he said "Hmm..." but he
never came up with anything workable...
cgf
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