Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?

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In message <20030211185700.GA6033@tornado.toronto.redhat.com>, Diego Novillo wr
ites:
 >[ From a discussion in gomp-discuss ]
 >
 >On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
 >
 >> Diego, is it allowed to act in the mean time as if he does have an
 >> assignment?  It's on a branch, maybe it's not such a big deal as for
 >> main line especially when everybody knows all the paper work is in the
 >> pipeline.
 >> 
 >I believe that to be the case, but I'm not sure.
 >
 >Can anybody confirm that I'm not talking nonsense?  A couple of
 >developers for the new gomp-branch are in the process of filing
 >their FSF copyright forms.
 >
 >Could they still contribute patches to the branch while the
 >paperwork is being processed?
I *strongly* recommend against this.  In fact, please please please
don't do it.  Code without proper assignments should never get into
our source base, even on a branch.


Jeff