From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29874 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2006 18:51:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 29825 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Sep 2006 18:51:24 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com (HELO snape.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:51:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snape.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D832C013; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:51:19 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ecoscentric.com Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (snape.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PdU8jt+LghLe; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:50:59 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4501BB92.5000401@eCosCentric.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:51:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc3.4.legacy (X11/20060515) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn CC: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: FSF status References: <20060908091947.GE25338@lunn.ch> <4501A25C.8010704@eCosCentric.com> <20060908171322.GA30345@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20060908171322.GA30345@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: >>The only reason we can't use their standard assignment template is that it >>assigns all code in "eCos" which is something eCosCentric cannot be >>expected to do as eCosCentric develops extensions to eCos which are not to >>be assigned. > > > Are there any other FSF projects which have a commercial company > associated? Like Wine/crossover office? I've looked up that one, and WINE is not assigned to the FSF. I'll try to think of some other companies where the main project is assigned to the FSF but other bits wouldn't be. I know that Red Hat and Novell/SuSE do have a blanket assignment anyway, so not them. > Could you could find such a > setup which have already been through this process and use there > assignemt. Ask the company for a copy of what they used. You would > then have a strong position to argue from that the FSF accepted this > exact wording before, so there is no need for the legal people to be > really involved..... I've already asked this of the FSF directly in prior correspondence and they claimed no-one's ever raised this before. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts ------["The best things in life aren't things."]------ Opinions==mine