Re: Need personal copyrigt assignment to contribute glibc?

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 3/11/21 3:52 AM, Florian Weimer via Libc-help wrote:
> * yunqiang su:
> 
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist
>>
>> The Free Software Foundation (holder of the glibc copyrights) requires
>> copyright assignment for all legally significant changes by a particular
>> author (read not a company). This webpage describes the copyright assignment
>> requirements.
>>
>> So, does it mean that I need to sign a personal copyright assignment even my
>> employer has one for all FSF projects?
> 
> The glibc project does not require dual assignments.  Assignment from
> the actual copyright holder is sufficient for our purposes.  FSF policy
> might differ from that, but you'll have to talk to the FSF to figure
> out.  The GNU project says this:
> 
> | If the employer does claim the work was part of the person’s job, and
> | there is no clear basis to say that claim is invalid, then we have to
> | consider it valid. Then the person cannot assign copyright, but the
> | employer can. Many companies have done this. Please ask the
> | appropriate managers to contact assign@gnu.org.
> 
> <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html>
> 
> I don't think this requires dual assignment, either.  In fact, it even
> argues against it.
> 
>> If I want to continue to contribute glibc, which one should I chose?
>> request-disclaim.changes, request-assign.changes,  request-assign.future.
> 
> request-assign.future is what we recommend.
> 
> (I should point out that I'm not an glibc steward/GNU maintainer.)

Florian's answers are correct, and I am a GNU Maintainer for glibc.

Please see the contribution checklist:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.