Release criteria status

[Mike Stump]

> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:08:44 +1100 (EST)
> From: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>

> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > What happened to the assignment issues with the work mentioned in
> > > <URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-07/msg00478.html >?
> > 
> > The contributor didn't want to involve his employer for the patches
> > he had developed privately (at home) and the FSF required that. It's
> > a pity, but we cannot use that work.

> Sorry, this might be th wrong place to ask, but what is required of
> my employer if I submit a patch developed in my own time?

A disclaimer of any right they have on such work, or a disclaimer that
they have no claim in such work.  Most employment agreements have
clauses in them that make all work an employee does subject to control
by their employer.  Our requirement is just a natural consequence of
this.