Re: Checking in code that is copyright Mind

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:37, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> Hi Gary
> 
> Regarding your recent bunch of checkins.
> 
> It was my understanding that until the licensing issue has been resolved 
> either way with Red Hat that the maintainers still require code 
> assignments to Red Hat (as per Jifl's recent email to our friend from 
> Liverpool), although the maintainers themselves are free to check in 
> their own personal contributions.
> 
> The purpose of this was that, if in the event Red Hat agreed, the code 
> would be assigned to a NFP organisation as per the gentlemans agreement 
> with all the maintainers. The maintainers at eCosCentric have certainly 
> been adhering to this policy.
> 
> As the ecos repository now stands, if an agreement were to be made with 
> Red Hat to assign the code to a NFP organisation to enable it to derive 
> revenue from licensing of the code, the maintainers would also now 
> require assignment from Mind as well as themselves.
> 
> Could you please explain your position with regard to the policy?

Copyright for any/all code which came from Mind has been assigned to
me, personally.  I have thus contributed this, not Mind.  There are
no "Copyright Mind" notices in the repository.

Once the NFP is chosen, I am more than willing to have these files
become "Copyright XYZ", as appropriate.

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