Re: Pros and cons of FSF

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

Mark Salter wrote:
>>>>>>Jonathan Larmour writes:
> 
> 
>>* An unanswered question: will Red Hat developers need to make sure there 
>>is an assignment to the FSF? Or will it be okay to just do stuff since 
>>there's already more than enough RH copyright so a little more won't make 
>>much difference. I suspect the FSF may insist on the former, but if so, 
>>would that be acceptable to Red Hat? This may make life very difficult for 
>>developers in Red Hat :-|.
> 
> 
> I think all Red Hat employees are covered by a blanket assignment
> to FSF. I'll check to make sure.

It depends on the exact text certainly, because the default FSF assignment 
form explicitly lists the "Program" covered.

Jifl
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