From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer To: Joe Buck Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac dot@(Gerald Pfeifer), gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Copyright forms for new contributor? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <87r8s3l32m.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <200110161945.MAA06074@atrus.synopsys.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00925.html Joe Buck writes: > Just the same, we need a better procedure. Perhaps we SC members will > need to take turns being the copyright form liason. We could set up > a mailing list for the purpose of handling requests from contributors > for the legal documents. Is this really necessary? There's already a copyright assignment clerk at the FSF who does this job. I've received my papers within four working days, and some of these are due to the postal services involved. I guess this delay is acceptable, and if non-FSF forms are used, we'd probably face an increase in the time required to process the signed assignment contract form, so even if we could spare one or two days, this wouldn't result in a net win in the end.