In message <15614.10904.705392.925058@gladsmuir.algor.co.uk>, Dominic Sweetman writes: > > --MwF7gxnaJe > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Description: message body text > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > 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... What's important here is the assignment that is on file with the FSF. That's what needs to be checked. jeff
