From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17541 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2004 19:07:19 -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 15835 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2004 19:07:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 19:07:07 -0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjMgV-00050v-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:07:07 +0100 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:07:00 -0000 To: eCos Maintainers Subject: FWD: Re: [ECOS] Status of eCos copyright assignments to the FSF? Message-ID: <20041228190707.GD8819@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Andrew Lunn X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 > ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Lunn ----- > > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:59:16 +0100 > To: Wouter Cloetens > Cc: eCos Discuss > From: Andrew Lunn > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Status of eCos copyright assignments to the FSF? > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham > version=3.0.1 > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:08:50PM +0100, Wouter Cloetens wrote: > > More than a year has passed since this announcement: > > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-announce/2003/msg00008.html. > > > > Is there any progress? We have a list of contributions we would like to > > make, but assigning copyright to eCosCentric is a sensitive issue. While > > we would prefer a model without copyright assignment (e.g. I just took > > a look at my Apache Software Foundation Contributor Licence Agreement, > > and this model seems preferable to me; legal validity and advantages of a > > copyright assignment can be questioned), we would be more inclined to > > 1. assign copyright to the FSF instead of eCosCentric, and > > 2. explicitly limit the scope of the assignment to only that code that we > > want to specifically contribute, rather than signing a blanket > > assignment. > > We are still waiting for RedHat to make good on their promise to > assign there parts of eCos to the FSF. It is nearly a year since they > made their press release about doing this..... Hi Jifl I think its about time we officialy told RedHat about our counter press release we will make on 13th Jan 2005. We should give them a fair chance to actually make the transfer. I expect they unofficially know what is coming, i expect somebody in Redhat is reading ecos-maintainers and has seen the discussion we had at the beginning of the month. So two weeks notice does not seem too unreasonable. Andrew