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Re: fsf paperwork?
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:05:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: fsf paperwork?
- References: <20110315180115.GA32319@bromo.med.uc.edu> <mcrwrk0ue1r.fsf@google.com>
On 3/15/2011 8:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Jack Howarth<howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
Is anyone else having problems getting the FSF copyright
clerk to complete the FSF paperwork? I am going on six months
now and the revised disclaimer that UC sent them still hasn't cleared
the FSF copyright office. Worse yet, the clerk hasn't responsed to
emails in the past few months. No one should have to suffer through
this just to donate their time to an open source project.
I am also hearing complaints, though just today I did get a reply.
Who did the revision? If someone changes the standard FSf form, they
can expect a substantial delay, because issuing a legal opinion on
a modified document is not trivial, and it is not as though the FSF
has infinite legal resources.
I would appreciate it if the steering committee, as the official FSF
maintainers, could pass this on to the FSF. There are many barriers to
contributing to gcc, and this one is really painful and self-inflicted
to boot.