• 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:

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!