Checking in code that is copyright Mind

Checking in code that is copyright Mind

[Alex Schuilenburg]

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?

Thanks
-- Alex

Re: Checking in code that is copyright Mind

[Gary Thomas]

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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