Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Collecting copyright assignments is trivial business,
Unfortunately, it is not. The basic mechanics of it are trivial, sure: collect autographs. The details matter a lot though. Recall that it wouldn't have been simply the FSF office doing this, the way they do for GCC: it would have been *me* collecting those papers. So, I'd have been party to all those contracts. I might have been liable if someone lied or got wrong their rights to assign work to me. For my protection I would have to pay rent to securely archive those assignments (forever, essentially). Assignments aren't a game. They have to be handled with great care and, even if the mechanics of them are simple, that "great care" is expensive. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
