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Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, OpenMP for GCC project <gomp-discuss at nongnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:48:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?
- References: <1045048507.756.35.camel@steven> <200302121424.h1CEOm3H011201@localhost.redhat.com>
> >I understand why you feel about it this way. But in this case maybe an
> >exception could be made, for the following reasons.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:24:47AM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> No. Not even in this case.
One reason is that there could be a last-minute holdup from company lawyers:
to me, the most important part of the paperwork is the disclaimer (or
assignment) from the employer. Without it, we might have to rip out
big chunks of code later: not only from the contributor, but also on
any code that builds on top of that code.
There are many aspects of the process that I don't like, but the basic
concept (of asking for assignments and employer disclaimers) has huge
advantages.