From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26336 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2009 14:53:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 26322 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Apr 2009 14:53:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hermes.mlbassoc.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (76.76.67.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:09 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id A78023B52955; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:52:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9763B52629; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:52:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <49E74644.9050302@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Austin, Brian" CC: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Cirrus contribution References: <49DF669E.6030205@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Austin, Brian wrote: > I need some more info on why Cirrus has to sign over the "rights" to the > code. This is a stickler for our legal, and they are concerned as to why > we have to sign something. I know, I know, but if there is any > documentation as to why we have to do this, it would help me a great > deal. I'm still working with our legal department, and I think I can > get it done, but would like more ammo is yall have anything else for me > to help the cause..... Look at the FSF documents/website. The FSF is the copyright holder for all of eCos. Anything which is to be added or significantly changed must relinquish all copyright claims to the FSF. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 10:33 AM > To: Austin, Brian > Cc: eCos Maintainers > Subject: Cirrus contribution > > Brian, > > Thanks for posting this. We (I for sure) will be looking > at this soon, awaiting your formal assignment to the FSF. > > Thanks again > http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000739 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------