ports to 2.96 and 3.1 versions

[Marc Espie]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:01:51AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > This is one place that ought to be completely revisited. The time needed
> > to process copyright assignment papers is astounding. The fore-knowledge
> > needed to be able to participate in any FSF process is fairly large (even
> > knowing that those papers exist is not trivial, choosing which ones to
> > sign is not easy, and it takes at the least 3 months to do that).
> 
> It doesn't take nearly that long unless something goes wrong (that is,
> unless someone drops the ball).  But you only hear about the outliers,
> because those are the people who (naturally) complain.

Well, I was speaking from past personal experience.

Apparently, things work better now. I'm fairly happy about it.