Copyright Assignment Form

Copyright Assignment Form

[Akshat Agarwal]

Hey,
I would like to contribute some patches to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/) and I'd like to get a copyright assignment form as per the guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
Do let me know if there are any more steps involved.

Thanks,
Akshat Agarwal

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

[David Edelsohn]

Sent off list.

- David

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:28 PM Akshat Agarwal via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I would like to contribute some patches to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/) and I'd like to get a copyright assignment form as per the guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
> Do let me know if there are any more steps involved.
>
> Thanks,
> Akshat Agarwal

Copyright Assignment Form

[Ruihan Li]

Hello, everyone.




I'd like to contribute to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) and they require contributions to have copyright assignment in place. Could you please tell me what I should do and send me the relevant forms?

Thank you in advance.

Ruihan Li

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

[David Edelsohn]

Replied privately.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 8:37 AM Ruihan Li via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone.
>
>
>
>
> I'd like to contribute to the gccrs project (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) and they require contributions to have copyright assignment in place. Could you please tell me what I should do and send me the relevant forms?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ruihan Li

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

[Liu Hao]

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在 2021/4/9 下午11:06, David Edelsohn via Gcc 写道:
> Replied privately.
> 

Excuse me, but why this has to be done privately? I generally expect there to be such a form that 
people may download, fill and submit without public acknowledgements.

Please forgive me if I am being too curious.


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Re: Copyright Assignment Form

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, 03:37 Liu Hao via Gcc, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> 在 2021/4/9 下午11:06, David Edelsohn via Gcc 写道:
> > Replied privately.
> >
>
> Excuse me, but why this has to be done privately? I generally expect there
> to be such a form that
> people may download, fill and submit without public acknowledgements.
>
> Please forgive me if I am being too curious.
>

I don't about David, but the reason I take it off-list is that there is
more than one form that might be appropriate, depending on the
contributor's situation. The forms are available online (e.g. in the gnulib
repo) but discussing what is suitable, and whether a disclaimer from an
employer is needed, doesn't need to be done in public. The contributor
might not want to discuss who their employer is on the public list, for
example.

Re: Copyright Assignment Form

[Liu Hao]

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在 2021/4/10 下午3:22, Jonathan Wakely 写道:
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> I don't about David, but the reason I take it off-list is that there is more than one form that 
> might be appropriate, depending on the contributor's situation. The forms are available online (e.g. 
> in the gnulib repo) but discussing what is suitable, and whether a disclaimer from an employer is 
> needed, doesn't need to be done in public. The contributor might not want to discuss who their 
> employer is on the public list, for example.
> 
> 

Thanks for your information.


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Copyright assignment form

[Antoni Boucher]

Hello.
I'd like a copyright assignment form for all my future contributions to 
gcc.
Thanks.

copyright assignment form

[David Čepelík]

Dear GCC devs,

in accordance with [1] I'd like to ask you to provide me
with the copyright assignment form (the "for all future
changes" variant). I'll be submitting a larger patch soon.

Regards
David Čepelík

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal

Re: copyright assignment form

[Martin Jambor]

Hello,

On Sat, May 18 2019, David Čepelík wrote:
> Dear GCC devs,
>
> in accordance with [1] I'd like to ask you to provide me
> with the copyright assignment form (the "for all future
> changes" variant). I'll be submitting a larger patch soon.

I believe the right process is to email the following information to
assign@gnu.org and they will send you the assignment form for your "past
and future changes".  Use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as
the subject line of the message.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES

[What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]

[Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]

[Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
your changes?  Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]

[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]

[What year were you born?]

[Please write your email address here.]

[Please write your postal address here.]

[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
so far?]
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I find the form quite a bit strange since it asks people about stuff
they already changed when without a copyright assignment they could not
have changed anything, but well...

Martin

Copyright assignment form

[Andrew Benson]

Hello,

I'd like to contribute a patch to GCC, and was told I need to get and sign a 
copyright assignment form before I can do so. Could you send me the form - and 
if there's a separate form needed for any release of copyright by my employer 
(as the patch was developed as part of my job) I would need that also.

Thank you,
Andrew Benson

Copyright assignment form

[Shahid Khan]

Hello GCC maintainer,

Our team at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. is interested in contributing patches to the upstream GCC compiler project. To get the process started, we'd like to request a copyright assignment form as per contribution guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.

Please let me know if there are additional steps we need to take to become an effective contributor to the GCC community.

Thanks,
Shahid

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Jim Wilson]

On 01/15/2018 03:11 PM, Shahid Khan wrote:
> Our team at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. is interested in contributing patches to the upstream GCC compiler project. To get the process started, we'd like to request a copyright assignment form as per contribution guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
> 
> Please let me know if there are additional steps we need to take to become an effective contributor to the GCC community.

You should contact assign@gnu.org directly.  The standard forms contain 
language about patents that Qualcomm lawyers are unlikely to be 
comfortable with, and may require negotiating a non-standard agreement. 
As best as I can tell, the FSF has never received a copyright assignment 
or disclaimer from Qualcomm.  If this is the first time Qualcomm lawyers 
are talking to the FSF, this will take a while.  I would not be 
surprised if this takes a year or two.  You will also need a VP level 
signature for the forms once you get approval from Qualcomm lawyers.

You may want to consider getting a disclaimer from your employer, and 
then filing personal assignments.  It is probably easier to get a 
disclaimer from Qualcomm than an assignment, but this requires more 
paperwork, since each individual contributing then needs their own 
personal assignment.  The disclaimers also have language about patents 
that the Qualcomm lawyers may not like, so while this should be easier, 
it is still likely a difficult process.

Siddhesh can help you with this as the rules for gcc are the same as for 
glibc.

Jim

RE: Copyright assignment form

[Shahid Khan]

Thanks for the info, Jim. 

Siddhesh,

Is there a separate copyright assignment for glibc or the same form works for both?

-Shahid 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wilson [mailto:jimw@sifive.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:01 PM
To: Shahid Khan <shahidk@qti.qualcomm.com>; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: siddhesh@linaro.org
Subject: Re: Copyright assignment form

On 01/15/2018 03:11 PM, Shahid Khan wrote:
> Our team at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. is interested in contributing patches to the upstream GCC compiler project. To get the process started, we'd like to request a copyright assignment form as per contribution guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
> 
> Please let me know if there are additional steps we need to take to become an effective contributor to the GCC community.

You should contact assign@gnu.org directly.  The standard forms contain language about patents that Qualcomm lawyers are unlikely to be comfortable with, and may require negotiating a non-standard agreement. 
As best as I can tell, the FSF has never received a copyright assignment or disclaimer from Qualcomm.  If this is the first time Qualcomm lawyers are talking to the FSF, this will take a while.  I would not be surprised if this takes a year or two.  You will also need a VP level signature for the forms once you get approval from Qualcomm lawyers.

You may want to consider getting a disclaimer from your employer, and then filing personal assignments.  It is probably easier to get a disclaimer from Qualcomm than an assignment, but this requires more paperwork, since each individual contributing then needs their own personal assignment.  The disclaimers also have language about patents that the Qualcomm lawyers may not like, so while this should be easier, it is still likely a difficult process.

Siddhesh can help you with this as the rules for gcc are the same as for glibc.

Jim

RE: Copyright assignment form

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

Hi Shahid,

You need a separate assignment for every GNU project you intend to
contribute to, so separate assignments for GCC, glibc, binutils, etc.

Siddhesh

On 17-Jan-2018 01:25, "Shahid Khan" <shahidk@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:

Thanks for the info, Jim.

Siddhesh,

Is there a separate copyright assignment for glibc or the same form works
for both?

-Shahid

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wilson [mailto:jimw@sifive.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:01 PM
To: Shahid Khan <shahidk@qti.qualcomm.com>; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: siddhesh@linaro.org
Subject: Re: Copyright assignment form

On 01/15/2018 03:11 PM, Shahid Khan wrote:
> Our team at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. is interested in
contributing patches to the upstream GCC compiler project. To get the
process started, we'd like to request a copyright assignment form as per
contribution guidelines outlined at https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
>
> Please let me know if there are additional steps we need to take to
become an effective contributor to the GCC community.

You should contact assign@gnu.org directly.  The standard forms contain
language about patents that Qualcomm lawyers are unlikely to be comfortable
with, and may require negotiating a non-standard agreement.
As best as I can tell, the FSF has never received a copyright assignment or
disclaimer from Qualcomm.  If this is the first time Qualcomm lawyers are
talking to the FSF, this will take a while.  I would not be surprised if
this takes a year or two.  You will also need a VP level signature for the
forms once you get approval from Qualcomm lawyers.

You may want to consider getting a disclaimer from your employer, and then
filing personal assignments.  It is probably easier to get a disclaimer
from Qualcomm than an assignment, but this requires more paperwork, since
each individual contributing then needs their own personal assignment.  The
disclaimers also have language about patents that the Qualcomm lawyers may
not like, so while this should be easier, it is still likely a difficult
process.

Siddhesh can help you with this as the rules for gcc are the same as for
glibc.

Jim

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Jim Wilson]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@linaro.org> wrote:
> You need a separate assignment for every GNU project you intend to
> contribute to, so separate assignments for GCC, glibc, binutils, etc.

The form is the same for all GNU projects.

You can file an assignment that covers a single patch, or a single
project, or multiple patches, or multiple projects, or even all
patches for all projects.  Though of course the lawyers will have a
say in this, as they may not be comfortable with a broad assignment,
and may want to restrict it to specific projects, or even specific
patches for specific projects.  The more restricted the assignment,
the more paperwork you have to do, but the easier it it to get it past
lawyers uncomfortable with FSF requirements.  For instance, you can
get an assignment for a single patch, but then you have to go through
the assignment process every time you contribute a patch.

Jim

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 17-Jan-2018 02:02, "Jim Wilson" <jimw@sifive.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@linaro.org> wrote:
> You need a separate assignment for every GNU project you intend to
> contribute to, so separate assignments for GCC, glibc, binutils, etc.

The form is the same for all GNU projects.


Right, the content is the same, but I remember signing separate papers for
each project.

Siddhesh

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Nathan Sidwell]

On 01/16/2018 03:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> Right, the content is the same, but I remember signing separate papers for
> each project.

That was a local decision between (I presume) linaro and the FSF.   A 
single assignment may cover multiple specific projects, or specify any.

nathan

-- 
Nathan Sidwell

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Wednesday 17 January 2018 05:52 PM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> That was a local decision between (I presume) linaro and the FSF.   A
> single assignment may cover multiple specific projects, or specify any.

I didn't sign my copyright papers through Linaro; I've had an individual
assignment on file since 2012 when I was at RH.

In any case that's just a procedural thing that shouldn't matter given
that the content is the same.

Siddhesh

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Jim Wilson wrote:

> You can file an assignment that covers a single patch, or a single
> project, or multiple patches, or multiple projects, or even all
> patches for all projects.  Though of course the lawyers will have a
> say in this, as they may not be comfortable with a broad assignment,
> and may want to restrict it to specific projects, or even specific
> patches for specific projects.  The more restricted the assignment,

And it may be restricted in which staff can contribute patches (either 
describing a group of staff, or listing names and requiring additional 
paperwork to add extra individuals to it).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Jim Wilson wrote:

> You should contact assign@gnu.org directly.  The standard forms contain
> language about patents that Qualcomm lawyers are unlikely to be comfortable
> with, and may require negotiating a non-standard agreement. As best as I can
> tell, the FSF has never received a copyright assignment or disclaimer from
> Qualcomm.

Which is why the Hexagon ports of GCC / binutils / GDB / glibc never went 
upstream.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

Copyright assignment form

[Decius Caecilius Metellus]

Hello,

I would like to contribute to gcc sometime in the future. I have

been told that the necessary paperwork can take some time, so

I would appreciate if you could send me the copyright assignment

form.


Nicolas Koenig

Copyright assignment form

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

   Please send me the copyright assignment form I need to contribute to GCC.

-- 
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen

copyright assignment form

[Jack Howarth]

   Please seend me the copyright assignment form required for
contribution to gcc. Thanks in advance.
    Jack Howarth

Re: Copyright assignment form

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Mike Yang wrote:
> I'd like to submit a contribution to gcc.  Could I receive a copy of the
> copyright assignment form to begin the process?  Thanks!

FYI, to avoid duplicates: I'm taking care of this and am already in
contact with Mike.

Gerald

Copyright assignment form

[Mike Yang]

Hi:

I'd like to submit a contribution to gcc.  Could I receive a copy of the
copyright assignment form to begin the process?  Thanks!

				Mike Yang