Release criteria status

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Tue Nov 7 12:36:00 GMT 2000


  In message < Pine.LNX.4.21.0011071007560.894-100000@localhost.localdomain >you 
write:
  > 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 from your employeer.

 Here is a sample; alter the names:

  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  Ty Coon, President of Vice


jeff



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