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Re: Copyright assignments and the MAINTAINERS file
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > > The best thing would be to take the list in MAINTAINERS and send it to
> > > the FSF copyright clerk asking for a categorization into:
> > >
> > > (a) Changes OK for docs and code
> > >
> > > (b) Changes OK for code only
> > >
> > > (c) Changes not OK at all
> >
> > I think we don't need to care about the distinction between (a) and (b)...
> >
> > > Would you care to prepare that email and send it off to the FSF?
> >
> >
> > ...but such a check really would be very useful!
>
> Once the lists of accounts in the gcc group but not in MAINTAINERS, and
> disabled accounts still listed in MAINTAINERS, sent to overseers, have
> been resolved, I'll prepare the list for FSF categorization (which may
> also cover assignments that name part of GCC only) though they may not
> know who is covered by a blanket employer assignment.
That's actually a significant issue; I know there are some people
formerly at Cygnus/Red Hat who were covered only by their employer
assignment, who are no longer working there, and who are still listed
in MAINTAINERS.
Often these people are listed only by their corporate e-mail address,
which is of course not valid, and so they are no longer contactable.
We should at least clean up the e-mail addresses.
I am not sure if there are Apple people who are no longer there and
didn't have personal assignments; but I do know there are some people
who have an Apple e-mail address listed in MAINTAINERS is no longer
valid.
Would anyone like to suggest a procedure for cleaning this up?
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>