Re: GCC copyright assignment instructions

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> The GCC copy of the GNU assignment instructions is somewhat out of date
> relative to the one on www.gnu.org.  This patch carries over the
> straightforward changes; OK to commit?

Yes, thanks.

> More complicated: the GNU procedures seem to have changed to involve the
> completed form for signing being sent by the FSF to the contributor as the
> normal case: (from the version on the GNU web site)

Yup, we should/have to move to the new procedure.

> If the GCC procedures are to be synchronised with the GNU ones, then the
> forms in htdocs/fsf-forms would need to be updated to the current
> collection of GNU forms (including the request- versions), and
> assignment-instructions.html (which looks like it was taken from the top
> of assign.changes) probably replaced with an updated set of instructions
> for what should be done for GCC assignments - say, based on what's in
> contribute.html and pointing to the request- forms.

We should avoid any duplication and just reference to main GNU site
instead.  In fact, we have asked RMS for a page with more detailed
instructions to link, but I believe there isn't such a page yet, right?

Gerald
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