From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,706866ab9089906d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-20 06:57:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <2BpX6.13114$pb1.478251@www.newsranger.com> <86ithtpvmp.fsf@acm.org> <871yohih9w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <_pOX6.1713$yp1.49933@www.newsranger.com> <874rtcum4d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 released Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:57:31 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:57:31 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8918 Date: 2001-06-20T13:57:31+00:00 List-Id: In article <874rtcum4d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says... > >Ted Dennison 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com