Copyright assignments and the MAINTAINERS file

[law@redhat.com]

In message <200402161840.i1GIeCfo013917@desire.geoffk.org>, Geoff Keating write
s:
 >> X-Original-To: geoffk@foam.wonderslug.com
 >> Cc: Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>,
 >>         "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>,
 >>         Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
 >> Reply-To: law@redhat.com
 >> From: law@redhat.com
 >> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:01:44 -0700
 >> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2004 09:02:11.0390 (UTC) FILETIME=[902AADE0:0
 >1C3F46B]
 >Yes.  Every person with commit access needs basically every piece of
 >information in the copyright list mantained by the FSF.  At the moment
 >this works by asking people whether they've made a copyright
 >assignment (or just assuming that they have), which has several
 >obvious problems.  Why can't the GCC part of that list be made public?
Because RMS refuses to have the copyright list be public.
jeff