Re: consolidate ELF header checks

[Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2005 22:28, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I was hacking on the kFreeBSD loader for GRUB Legacy and needed
> > other copyright assignments for other GNU projects, so I asked for
> > GRUB as well. Marco or Jeff pointed me to the assignment procudures.
> 
> I need to know how you did precisely. Did you ask assign@gnu.org or 
> something else? What template did you use? Did any maintainer of GNU 
> Software specify how to proceed it?

I just sent a mail to assign@gnu.org and followed the instructions
and used the templates received.

> BTW, please contact appropriate maintainers before trying to assign 
> copyright from now on. Maintainers of GNU Software are responsible for 
> managing copyright issues. If you bypass the maintainers, they may not 
> keep things consistent, since they are not notified even if the 
> procedures are wrong.

Ok I will.

> Another - more serious - case is that you might have ignored the first 
> request completely and simply sent a filled assignment paper to the 
> FSF. You could do this, if you get a copy from someone who has assigned 
> copyright. If this happens, you wouldn't be informed of all the 
> cautions by the FSF, such as a copyright disclaimer by your employer.

I got informed of those, and any of such cautions applied in my case.

Is this all ok now, or do you need more info?

regards,
guillem