From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Stephen Polkowski Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] How do you like eCos Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A240889.7D483A26@cygnus.co.uk> References: <3A23C60F0.D360ANARCHY@ms6.hinet.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20001128120537.00abe8d0@larwe.com> <3A23F66C.B98E2536@centtech.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00363.html Stephen Polkowski wrote: > > For instance, Fabrice Gautier has been very active in > publishing changes for the Intel platform. Three or four > months ago he wrote a patch for the 386 PCI support. He also > contributed several other changes for the 386. None of these > changes have been promoted to CVS source tree. Why?$$ Because large changes like that need a copyright assignment and although he has sent one, it still has not been processed by Red Hat's legal department. The reason it has not been processed is our responsibility, admittedly. We've already tried to chase it up here a few times. We'll try again. Jifl -- Red Hat, 35 Cambridge Place, Cambridge, UK. CB2 1NS Tel: +44 (1223) 728762 "Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow." || These opinions are all my own fault