From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19571 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2003 03:53:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19555 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 03:53:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:53:00 -0000 From: Motoya Kurotsu To: Andrew Lunn Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Assignment Message-ID: <20030806125327.A20035@white.office1> References: <20030804093857.GZ1771@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i-jp0 In-Reply-To: <20030804093857.GZ1771@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>; from andrew.lunn@ascom.ch on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:38:57AM +0200 X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 > > We have reached the stage that you need to get an assignment statement > signed. Please could you goto > > http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/assign.html > Hi eCos maintainers; I'm reading 'eCos Copyright Assignment Form' carefully now. I would like to ask some questions. 1) Can I or our company renounce this agreement in the future? Assume the case where our company will make the intellectual policy more tight or the case where my successor doesn't accept this agreement. You may simply say "Don't send patches any more". But you see legal department people often require more minuteness. 2) There is the clause titled "Which files have you changed so far,..." Does it mean that the effective range of this agreement is limited to the files which I would list there. Or does this agreement cover all files under the ecos tree. In other words and strictly speaking, do I need to update this agreement everytime I want to change another file? 3) In recent source files, not RedHat but personal name is listed as a copyright holder. Why? Redhat still holds copyright? Otherwise the effectiveness of this agreement is in question, isn't it? Or is there any legal agreement between the listed persons and RedHat? I don't intend to be a nag but legal issues make me and our management more conservative. Motoya Kurotsu Allied Telesis K.K.