From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Joe Buck Cc: Diego Novillo , , POP Sebastian Subject: Re: Copyright forms for new contributor? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:21:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200110161945.MAA06074@atrus.synopsys.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00986.html On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Joe Buck wrote: >> Nobody officially handles these requests ever since RMS requested that we >> remove these forms from our web site. And ever since then, I am wasting my >> time handling these requests as nobody else seems to care. > The reason for not giving out the forms directly was that people were > sending the wrong forms, making small (but legally significant) changes > to them, etc. Since the contract has to be on paper, it works best if > the FSF sends out the actual paper [...] This definitely makes sense, and I didn't mean to criticize that. However, it was (and is) absolutely unclear to me, why we cannot publish the forms used for requesting the paperwork on the web. > 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. Either that, or one or two volunteers. The problem right now is that requests basically remain unanswered, and I've just been jumping in when I notice that. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/