Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> writes: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:09:36PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> This still doesn't tell us if the assignment is effective. >> (To clarify, I haven't seen the FSF records, but I've spoken to several >> GNU contributors in potential work-for-hire scenarios and have been >> told how the assignment process had been handled within their >> organizations.) > It is largely unimportant. > The legal details of copyright assignment are not important here. If the > package lists the copyright as belonging to the FSF, then it belongs to > the FSF. If it does not, then it does not. I don't mean to be excessively blunt, but I'm afraid that this simply isn't legally true. > This is coming from a GNU maintainer who has been through the process. They apparently gave you incorrect information then. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
