• CopyrightAssignment

FSF Copyright Assignment

The legal requirements for contributing code or documentation to GCC are detailed here. For the most simple case of a individual contributing to GCC on his free time (i.e. his employer has no claim on the work produced for GCC), the copyright assignment process is the following.

However, best use the latest version from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright

1. Fill in the following form by answering the questions, and email it to fsf-records@gnu.org:

   Please email the following information to fsf-records@gnu.org, and we
   will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes.
   Please use your full name as the subject line of the message.
   
   
   [What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]
   
   
   [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
   Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]
   
   
   [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
   your changes?  Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]
   
   
   [For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]
   
   
   [What year were you born?]
   
   
   [Please write your email address here.]
   
   [Please write your snail address here.]
   
   
   
   
   
   [Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
   so far?]
   
   
   

2. The FSF will send you by postal mail the copyright assignment form.
3. Fill it, date it and sign it. Keep a copy for yourself and send the original back (still postal mail) to the FSF.

When they receive it, you're done: Welcome aboard!