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Re: Copyright assignments and the MAINTAINERS file
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 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.
I believe CGF and others already took care of some of these; however,
if you have specific (former) contributors in mind, please let us know
so that we can fix at least those problems we now about.
(I know for sure, because it happened a few months ago, that someone in
a similar situation was not aware that he'd need to obtain a personal
copyright assignment.)
> 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.
Yup.
> 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?
For those cases we know about, I suggest to remove them from MAINTAINERS
right away (for obviously they don't really care) and send a message to
overseers@gcc.gnu.org asking to have their accounts locked.
The FSF is very concerned about our relatively lax way to handle these
issues, and we should try to avoid whatever problems we can.
Gerald
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