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From: Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com>
To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mercury front-end
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101031935.LAA04548@racerx.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10101031136.AA18522@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>

>     My employer (The University of Melbourne) might perhaps have some
>     claim on them.  I will probably be able to persuade them to sign a
>     form either disclaiming ownership or assigning the rights to the FSF,
>     for the C side of the changes.  For the Mercury side, and the existing
>     Mercury compiler, that won't happen, since we (the Mercury group here)
>     want the freedom to release the Mercury distribution under different
>     licenses in future.
> 
> Note that you still have that freedom if you assign the copyright to
> the FSF under the standard assignment agreement.

There may be things that you want to do that are not covered by the
standard assignment agreement.  But then, RMS has been known to negotiate
different terms.  It's probably best to discuss it with him.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-03 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-03  3:36 Richard Kenner
2001-01-03 11:37 ` Joe Buck [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-26  6:12 Geert Bosch
2001-01-26  9:10 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-26 11:50   ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-01  6:51 Fergus Henderson
2001-01-01 12:41 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-01 21:43   ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-02 20:07 ` Jeffrey A Law
2001-01-03  0:04   ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03  0:35     ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-01-25 13:28 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-07-30  8:07   ` Fergus Henderson

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