Jack, Yes, I've had problems with considerable slowness on my end. The problem is, I believe, that it's part time and it's a volunteer job, so don't be too hard on him. He's doing the best he can.
On the other hand, though, the process itself does form a considerable blocker to getting things done when major contributors need to wait weeks or months get permission to submit something. The entire copyright process seems very lengthy and tedious, to be honest. Insurance of freedom via this process comes at a heavy price and that is in the form of developers who would have contributed, but either have been scared away by the process or have gotten frustrated with it because it has taken too long. Just my $0.02. Honestly, I would rather have the assurance that the software is free and clear, and I would like the process to move more quickly. Perhaps the FSF might want to look into getting him some much needed (and overdue) help. Later, GC On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote: > Is anyone else having problems getting the FSF copyright > clerk to complete the FSF paperwork? I am going on six months > now and the revised disclaimer that UC sent them still hasn't cleared > the FSF copyright office. Worse yet, the clerk hasn't responsed to > emails in the past few months. No one should have to suffer through > this just to donate their time to an open source project. > Jack > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell)
