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Subject: The Cygwin assignment (was [a subject which has been blacklisted, prematurely IMO])
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:32:26 +0100
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:16:08AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote:
>> [multiple recipients: cygwin mailing-list + Rose Naftaly at RedHat]
>> Note: This is legal stuff, many of you may want to skip this mail...
>
> Good advice.
>
>> In <url:http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> it says to ask questions on
>> the mailing-list, while in <url:http://cygwin.com/assign.txt> it says
>> to send questions to R. Naftaly. Hence this (b)cc'd message.
>
> There is no reason to send legal questions here.  This list will not
> resolve your grievances.  Contacting the person in the contrib link
> is the correct way to do this.
>
> Lets not discuss this here any further.  There is no reason to subject
> the cygwin mailing list to Red Hat specific legal questions.  We don't
> need a bunch of IANAL's wasting bandwidth with their expert legal
> opinions.

I agree there's nothing to _discuss_ here - Red Hat's response is
definitive.

*But* I'd be very interested to see the official response to Bas van
Gompel's
questions, as they echo my own concerns about signing a Cygwin assignment.
And I think that information about barriers to contributing to Cygwin is on
topic.

Max.


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