Copyright assignments and the MAINTAINERS file

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Thu Feb 12 19:51:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> After some consideration, RMS and the GCC Steering Committee have 
> affirmed that nobody should be listed in MAINTAINERS unless they are 
> covered by a copyright assignment that permits them to commit code to 
> the repository.  (The assignment could be an individual assignment or a 
> blanket corporate assignment or some other suitable instrument that 
> would allow us to commit changes from that person.)

Should those with only pre-Jan 2002 assignments (covering code but not
documentation, per <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-05/msg01926.html>) be
marked in some way?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk



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