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Subject: Re: EMACS Ada Mode Maintenance
Date: 1999/02/04
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In article <79c9b2$h3j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> This is to announce that Richard Stallman has formally
> designated Emmanuel Briot as the official maintainer
> of Ada mode for EMACS. Emmanuel Briot is an employee of
> Ada Core Technologies, but will be doing this work with

So much for all those arguments about ACT's Ada mode differing from that of
the "true owners" :-)

> a GNU hat on, and of course all work will be assigned to
> the Free Software Foundation. Ada Core Technologies is

As someone who is currently getting ready to release some OpenSource s/w, I'm
curious about this. How exactly does one "assign" one's work to the FSF? Is
it as simple as putting the copyright notice in their name? Does the FSF have
to be notified somehow?

T.E.D.

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