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 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:33:34 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed) Message-ID: <20050609183334.GB30479@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F09DA9E3 AT pauex2ku08 DOT agere DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F09DA9E3@pauex2ku08.agere.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- 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/