From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVJD-0003lP-EA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:20 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVJ9-0003kk-JA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVJ8-0003kP-Db for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVJ6-0003kI-Sy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:13 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVVJ6-0002el-Ty for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:13 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8C03C7A1F41 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 28 Oct 05 14:35:19 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:34:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510281634.08717.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: copyright management X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:34:17 -0000 As Marco agreed, I send this information to the list. Currently, the copyright handling at the FSF is very confused, and this slows down the procedures of copyright assignments very much. Until now, our policy was to apply patches _after_ the copyright is completely transferred to the FSF, but we cannot avoid facing on a policy change, since we do not want to delay the development too much. So I'd like to go in this way as a temporary solution *until the copyright clerk gets sane*: 1. When you have not signed a copyright assignment yet, we will ask you if you accept assigning your copyright on GRUB to the FSF. 2. If you agree, you send a request form to the FSF. 3. Based on this agreement, we start integrating your patches. To reduce a potential risk, we don't give you a direct write access to the CVS at this moment. 4. Once it is finished correctly, we give you a write permission to the CVS, if this makes things easier. IIRC, these people are in intermediate states: Ruslan, Vincent Guffens, Timothy, Vladimir. Do I miss anybody? Now I must dig out the archive to look up all pending patches... Okuji