Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy

[Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>]

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On 06-10-2022 22:18, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guilers!
> [...]
> New contributors are encouraged to assign copyright to the FSF by
> emailing them one of the forms at
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/>,
> especially if they intend to contribute significantly going forward.
> 
> New contributors may instead choose to not assign copyright to the FSF.

What about the following third situation: the contributor doesn't mind 
assigning Guile-related copyright to the FSF, but the assignment process 
can take or is taking a long time or there are some disagreements with 
the assignment contract to resolve (which might not even be possible in 
the end), so

   (1) first the contributor sends the patches without copyright
       assignment
   (2) then they are applied (after review, revisions, etc.)
   (3) once/if the assignment completes, the copyright headers in Guile
       are adjusted appropriately.

-- this avoids the time delay, while at the same time hopefully 
eventually doing the assignment.

Would such a situation be accepted? (It doesn't quite fit the two 
mentioned options.)

Greetings,
Maxime.

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