Copyright assignments and the MAINTAINERS file

[Mark Mitchell]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>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.)
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>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?
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The best thing would be to take the list in MAINTAINERS and send it to 
the FSF copyright clerk asking for a categorization into:

(a) Changes OK for docs and code

(b) Changes OK for code only

(c) Changes not OK at all

Would you care to prepare that email and send it off to the FSF?

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Mark Mitchell
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