On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and >>sign the copyright assignment, sigh), > >Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much >easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my >company), thus my approach. I had actually made some progress with the >assignment, but it went back to ground zero when my old group was >disbanded.
But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. I did ask the Red Hat lawyer if accepting public domain sources was ok and he said "Yes, but..." The problem is that you still have to verify that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? I truly hate all of this assignment stuff that is required for contributions to FSF programs and Cygwin. I think it's time for someone to come up with an online way to do this. I asked a (very) technically savvy lawyer acquaintance about this once and he said "Hmm..." but he never came up with anything workable... cgf -- 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/