Re: CEA (France) has signed assignment of copyright to FSF on GCC

2006-12-01 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > There could be privacy problems too. I don't know the relevant > legislation, but the [copyright assignment] list includes personal data > (year of birth, citizenship, employer) and, in Italy, I would have to > sign a form if I had ac

Re: CEA (France) has signed assignment of copyright to FSF on GCC

2006-12-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Paolo Bonzini wrote: The legislation in the US, however, is probably very different: for example, the copyright assignment form would have a separate signature, or a click-through if done via web, where you accept that the FSF keeps the data on a computer in order to process the assignment.

Re: CEA (France) has signed assignment of copyright to FSF on GCC

2006-12-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Personally, I think the list should be somewhere that *all* gcc maintainers have access to (not all of us have gnu.org accounts). I agree that in principle, GCC "code maintainers" would need to check it after approving a patch of somebody who has no CVS access. But the FSF does not care about

Re: CEA (France) has signed assignment of copyright to FSF on GCC

2006-12-01 Thread Daniel Berlin
BTW, I am surprised that it is not easy to know which organizations exactly has signed such legal papers. It could happen (in big organizations) that such an assignment has been signed, and a putative minor contributor to GCC does not know about it yet. There is a copyright list on gnu.org machi

CEA (France) has signed assignment of copyright to FSF on GCC

2006-12-01 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Dear All, Sorry to disturb uninterested people with following information For information (and for future reference) my employing organisation CEA http://www.cea.fr/ "Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, a French state-owned research entity with a scientific, technical, and industrial activity dul