On 3/15/2011 8:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Jack Howarth<howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:Is anyone else having problems getting the FSF copyright clerk to complete the FSF paperwork? I am going on six months now and the revised disclaimer that UC sent them still hasn't cleared the FSF copyright office. Worse yet, the clerk hasn't responsed to emails in the past few months. No one should have to suffer through this just to donate their time to an open source project.I am also hearing complaints, though just today I did get a reply.
Who did the revision? If someone changes the standard FSf form, they can expect a substantial delay, because issuing a legal opinion on a modified document is not trivial, and it is not as though the FSF has infinite legal resources.
I would appreciate it if the steering committee, as the official FSF maintainers, could pass this on to the FSF. There are many barriers to contributing to gcc, and this one is really painful and self-inflicted to boot.
