Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:16:08AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: >> [multiple recipients: cygwin mailing-list + Rose Naftaly at RedHat] >> Note: This is legal stuff, many of you may want to skip this mail... > > Good advice. > >> In <url:http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> it says to ask questions on >> the mailing-list, while in <url:http://cygwin.com/assign.txt> it says >> to send questions to R. Naftaly. Hence this (b)cc'd message. > > There is no reason to send legal questions here. This list will not > resolve your grievances. Contacting the person in the contrib link > is the correct way to do this. > > Lets not discuss this here any further. There is no reason to subject > the cygwin mailing list to Red Hat specific legal questions. We don't > need a bunch of IANAL's wasting bandwidth with their expert legal > opinions.
I agree there's nothing to _discuss_ here - Red Hat's response is definitive. *But* I'd be very interested to see the official response to Bas van Gompel's questions, as they echo my own concerns about signing a Cygwin assignment. And I think that information about barriers to contributing to Cygwin is on topic. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/