[ECOS] How do you like eCos
Stephen Polkowski
stephen@centtech.com
Tue Nov 28 12:01:00 GMT 2000
Jifl,
I apologize for my rash note. I was unaware that the lawyers
were mucking up the progress. So, in general, all contributed
code needs to get the OK from the law staff? Now I truly have
a reason to hate lawyers! :-}
Steve
Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
> Stephen Polkowski wrote:
> >
> > For instance, Fabrice Gautier has been very active in
> > publishing changes for the Intel platform. Three or four
> > months ago he wrote a patch for the 386 PCI support. He also
> > contributed several other changes for the 386. None of these
> > changes have been promoted to CVS source tree. Why?$$
>
> Because large changes like that need a copyright assignment and although he
> has sent one, it still has not been processed by Red Hat's legal
> department. The reason it has not been processed is our responsibility,
> admittedly. We've already tried to chase it up here a few times. We'll try
> again.
>
> Jifl
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