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Re: fsf paperwork?
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:05:37PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 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.
FSF legal could solve these problems in a minute. Don't shove a blanket
dislaimer for all employees at the employer. Give them two options to
sign...one blanket and one for only the specific employee. I have little
sympathy for the copyright office on this as they preconfigured the
paperwork to cause this exact problem.
Jack
>>
>> 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.