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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Horsley Tom wrote: >> ... but it appears to me that fairly substantial patches are being >> accepted without any sort of formal (or informal) copyright assignment. > > Which is the way it should be. I gave up sending any patches in > on emacs years ago because it takes 5 minutes to create the patch > and 5 months to fiddle the copyright assignment forms, find > the lawyers at your corporation who can approve it, convince > them they should be wasting their time on it, etc. > > If you want to bring perl development to a complete halt, by > all means create a formal mechanism for copyright assignment :-). There's "formalism" and then there's the GNU mess. All I was suggesting (Btw - IANAL) is that there be some sort of generic form to assign copyright ownership to TPF that people can just put their name on (and possibly sign) then email/fax/snailman/teleport to TPF. It doesn't even have to be compulsory. Cheers, -J --Thread Previous | Thread Next