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Re: Release criteria status
- To: Michael Still <mikal at stillhq dot com>
- Subject: Re: Release criteria status
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:37:42 -0700
- cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011071007560.894-100000@localhost.localdomain>you
write:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > What happened to the assignment issues with the work mentioned in
> > > <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-07/msg00478.html>?
> >
> > The contributor didn't want to involve his employer for the patches
> > he had developed privately (at home) and the FSF required that. It's
> > a pity, but we cannot use that work.
>
> Sorry, this might be th wrong place to ask, but what is required of my
> employer if I submit a patch developed in my own time?
A disclaimer from your employeer.
Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
jeff