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Manual contributions and copyright assignments
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:01:23 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Manual contributions and copyright assignments
RMS asked us to implement the following policy:
[P]lease don't install changes in the manual on the strength
of copyright assignments signed before Jan 2002. If a person signed
before that, assign@gnu.org can look at the papers and tell you if
they explicitly cover documentation. If not, we should get new papers
from that contributor.
As far as I understand, obvious fixes and minor changes (where we didn't
need a copyright assignment before) are not affected.
RMS, how do you suggest to proceed practically? This seems to affect more
than 100 developers with CVS write access, any of which can commit patches
of her/his own or others, and about 700 contributors overall (according to
/gd/gnuorg/copyright.list).
Gerald
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