[ECOS] Re: Cortex M3 architecture

[simon.kallweit@intefo.ch]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> As an eCos maintainer it is great to see people interested in a new
> architecture port and it looks like people will be working together to
> achieve this.
>   

I hope so :)
> One thing i should stress now, before things get going, code is
> written and patches start flying around, is that in order to get the
> finished code into the eCos repository you need to ensure that all
> contributors have copyright assignments with the FSF. 
>   

As I just read, the copyright assignment cannot be done with the FSF 
yet, and instead is handled by eCosCentric? Is this situation still valid?

> Getting such copyright assignments can be a long slow process. So
> don't let it stop development. However you need to keep track of who
> contributed what so at the end of the development work, you can show
> who has developed it and that they all have copyright assignments.
>   

So how do we get such copyright assignments? Is it sufficient to keep 
track of the developer names in the source files? Additionally a svn log 
could show who contributed to what file. Or what is needed besides?

Simon

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