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Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: law at redhat dot com, Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, OpenMP for GCC project <gomp-discuss at nongnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:54:22 -0600
- Subject: Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?
- Organization: OAR Corporation
- References: <1045048507.756.35.camel@steven> <200302121424.h1CEOm3H011201@localhost.redhat.com> <20030212094819.A5818@synopsys.com>
Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > >I understand why you feel about it this way. But in this case maybe an
> > >exception could be made, for the following reasons.
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:24:47AM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> > No. Not even in this case.
>
> One reason is that there could be a last-minute holdup from company lawyers:
> to me, the most important part of the paperwork is the disclaimer (or
> assignment) from the employer. Without it, we might have to rip out
> big chunks of code later: not only from the contributor, but also on
> any code that builds on top of that code.
>
> There are many aspects of the process that I don't like, but the basic
> concept (of asking for assignments and employer disclaimers) has huge
> advantages.
Until the paperwork is done, would it be sufficient for a temporary
project to be setup on savannah.nongnu.org? When the paperwork is
done, it could then be merged.
There could be appropriate links from gcc.gnu.org.
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