On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:03:44PM -0700, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ian
Ian,
Actually my ping today finally got a response. They are having a
conference call tomorrow with UC's IP folks. Apparently FSF legal
has 'recommendations' to UC's proposed disclaimer. All of this crap
just because UC won't sign a blanket disclaimer for all employees.
If they are still pushing the blanket disclaimer back at UC, I think
I'll scream.
Jack
