Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00b201c44c69$f86f0940$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <20040607041911 DOT GA10312 AT coe DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Subject: The Cygwin assignment (was [a subject which has been blacklisted, prematurely IMO]) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:32:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 it says to ask questions on >> the mailing-list, while in 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/