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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:58:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Serial programming patch
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In-Reply-To: <20010523162929.U10118@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:29:29PM +0200

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:29:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:15:26PM +0200, Jacek Trzcinski wrote:
>> Hi Corrina,
>> I would not like bother You too much so I hope it is my last e-mail
>> today.
>> I created sources (with Your little help - thanks, I utilized
>> os_being_run) at last
>> are conforming to GNU coding. I also created my ChangeLog file.
>> What concerns signing a copyright assignment form - is it really
>> necessary ?
>
>Unfortunately, yes. I can't explain that really good. It's one of
>the weirdnesses of the US copyright law.

Actually, it's really simple.  Red Hat needs to own all of the work
in Cygwin.  So, any contributions to cygwin have to be assigned to us.

This is similar to the requirement that any work done to gcc or gdb
need to be assigned to the FSF.

cgf

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