From: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>
Cc: alex@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to check copyright assignment papers?
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:01:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sgd8yqdleg0.fsf@occarina.pna.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030801.114315.85709972.wl@gnu.org> (Werner LEMBERG's message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:43:15 +0200 (CEST)")
Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> What is the best way for me to check if a person has signed
>>>> copyright papers for Emacs (and which kind of papers) in case I
>>>> want to apply a patch of that person?
>>>
>>> Connect to fencepost and read or grep copyright.list:
>>>
>>> grep Hannu /gd/gnuorg/copyright.list
>>
>> Ah, so I would need an account on fencepost. Hmm, maybe I'll just
>> ask someone who does when the occasion arises.
>
> Any reason why this file isn't available from public FTP somewhere
> in the GNU hierarchy? Downloading this file from a local mirror of
> GNU here in Europe is usually *much* faster than logging into
> fencepost.
Only people developing GNU software have legitimate reasons to access
this information. It is good practice not to share it with others. I
mean, would you expect your employer to hand over it's personnel
administration to anyone asking for it?
Lute.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-01 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 10:24 How to check copyright assignment papers? Lute Kamstra
2003-07-31 19:00 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-08-01 7:10 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-08-01 9:43 ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-08-01 13:01 ` Lute Kamstra [this message]
2003-08-04 0:09 ` Richard Stallman
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