Re: Copyright assigments for the GNU system.

[Barry deFreese]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    How should copyright assigments be handled for the GNU system? By GNU
>    system I mean tools like the package manager/builder, installer, etc.
>
> These programs would be GNU packages just as Emacs and GCC are.
>  

But with the amount of time it takes FSF to assign copyright, this is a 
major PITA..

>    How should things that we canniablaise from other projects be handled?
>    Like right now I'm cannabialising Nick Moffitt's code from GAR.  The
>    code I will write will be easy to transfer the copyright for, but I
>    have no idea about Nick's code... Haven't asked him yet either.
>
> We have to presume that code won't be copyright FSF.
> (We can't presume he would want to assign the copyright.)
>
> Do you need to copy code from GAR?  Could you use GAR itself?
>
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