Working on branches while copyright paperwork being processed?

[Joel Sherrill]

Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> >  >I understand why you feel about it this way.  But in this case maybe an
> >  >exception could be made, for the following reasons.
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:24:47AM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> > No.  Not even in this case.
> 
> One reason is that there could be a last-minute holdup from company lawyers:
> to me, the most important part of the paperwork is the disclaimer (or
> assignment) from the employer.  Without it, we might have to rip out
> big chunks of code later: not only from the contributor, but also on
> any code that builds on top of that code.
> 
> There are many aspects of the process that I don't like, but the basic
> concept (of asking for assignments and employer disclaimers) has huge
> advantages.

Until the paperwork is done, would it be sufficient for a temporary
project to be setup on savannah.nongnu.org?  When the paperwork is
done, it could then be merged.

There could be appropriate links from gcc.gnu.org.

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