Re: GCC 3.0 released

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <874rtcum4d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says...
>
>Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
>> I'm trying to go through the process with the SETI@Home Service, and
>> its been incredibly slow going.
>
>Well, it happens quite fast if you've contributed some code to GNU
>Emacs through some backdoor without signing any document. ;-)

To be fair, the phase I'm stuck on isn't really the copyright assignment, its
getting blessed as a "GNU project". My first email took 2.3 months to get
answered (I'd forgotten that I'd even sent it). The answer asked for more info,
which I sent off about 20 days ago...

Not that I'm ticked or anything. They have quite limited resources, and I'd much
rather see what they do have spent on software development than on paper-pushing
staff.

>OTOH, the copyright assignment stuff really slows down development in
>some areas.  For example, at the moment, our university cannot donate
>code to the FSF because of legal matters (the assignment contract is
>completely incompatible with German law).  In fact, someone already

It looks like they need some German legal work. Yet another area where I'd
rather see them spend their limited resources than on processing my silly
request. 

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