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Re: Who's maintaining CVS


Jani Monoses wrote:
Jani and Thomas: have you guys already submitted this paperwork
to Redhat?  Jani, if you recall I used your Atmel at49xxxx flash

I will probably not sign such an assignment,sorry.If anyone is interested
I can place all my contributions from now on in the public domain (where possible) so anyone with signed papers can legally take them and submit them
as their own.This goes for the lwIP port too.

Jani, is there any way we can convince you otherwise?  I cannot
send in my copyright assignment in good faith because I submitted
your at49xxxx flash driver.  If you do not want to turn over
copyright assignment to Redhat we probably need to pull the
patch and re-write it from scratch.

This whole process (including getting my employer to sign their
waiver) took me 20 minutes.

I truly don't believe this paperwork is counter to the philosophy
of open-source development.  Instead, it provides Redhat and the FSF
with all the legal ammunition they need to pursue anyone that would
attempt to wrest control of eCos or your flash driver.  I call it
fighting fire with fire.  I look forward to the day when an open
source license is defended in court.  To my knowledge no precedent
has been set (i.e. a case has gone to the jury and all appeals
exhausted).

-tim


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