Joe Buck (Joe.Buck@synopsys.com) writes: > Dominic wrote: > > > We do publish our sources on our web server. Not only are they > > > GPL but we have a copyright assignment to the FSF in place > > > (which I know was sent to Jim Wilson of Cygnus, albeit in > > > 1993...) > > Eric Christopher wrote: > > It's great that your changes do get out in one form or > > another. I'm personally uncertain as to the nature of copyright > > and how it would affect if I looked at your code and put it into > > the mainline sources - so I haven't :) > > Whose name and what company name would be on the copyright assignment? > We can check with the FSF list to see if it's on file. Meanwhile it > should not go in. I signed the assignment/waiver. The companies involved are Algorithmics Ltd and DFS3 Ltd. It was faxed to Jim Wilson (then at Cygnus) in October 1993 in the form recommended at that time. Here's a PDF. Note the 'company stationery' has changed since 1993...
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Let me know if you need a contemporary form. -- Dominic Sweetman Algorithmics Ltd The Fruit Farm, Ely Road, Chittering, CAMBS CB5 9PH, ENGLAND phone +44 1223 706200/fax +44 1223 706250/direct +44 1223 706205 http://www.algor.co.uk
