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Re: Checking in code that is copyright Mind
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Feb 2003 06:51:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: Checking in code that is copyright Mind
- References: <3E5C8AEA.5090603@ecoscentric.com>
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:37, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> Regarding your recent bunch of checkins.
>
> It was my understanding that until the licensing issue has been resolved
> either way with Red Hat that the maintainers still require code
> assignments to Red Hat (as per Jifl's recent email to our friend from
> Liverpool), although the maintainers themselves are free to check in
> their own personal contributions.
>
> The purpose of this was that, if in the event Red Hat agreed, the code
> would be assigned to a NFP organisation as per the gentlemans agreement
> with all the maintainers. The maintainers at eCosCentric have certainly
> been adhering to this policy.
>
> As the ecos repository now stands, if an agreement were to be made with
> Red Hat to assign the code to a NFP organisation to enable it to derive
> revenue from licensing of the code, the maintainers would also now
> require assignment from Mind as well as themselves.
>
> Could you please explain your position with regard to the policy?
Copyright for any/all code which came from Mind has been assigned to
me, personally. I have thus contributed this, not Mind. There are
no "Copyright Mind" notices in the repository.
Once the NFP is chosen, I am more than willing to have these files
become "Copyright XYZ", as appropriate.
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