Locale copyright assignments

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
>  Hi!
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>>   I just realized that I did not check whether the [Glibc Locale] author has copyright
>> assignment with FSF. Is our policy to require copyright assignments for
>> locales as well? I'm wondering since it seems this has not been the
>> practice up to now, though it would be good if someone with access
>> to the assignment list could check.
>
>  I expected to get an "obviously an assignment is required" reply but
> I got none, so maybe it is not so obvious. The locale files contain
> little creativity, even less than e.g. the timezone files which at least
> contain very detailed rationale for each record.
>
>  So this is a ping and I'm also Cc'ing legal@gnu.org and Brett Smith
> who was interested in locales copyright before as well:
>
>        http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2011-q1/msg00017.html
>
> (Note that this licence is still used for some locales.)
>
>  P.S.: I'm not interested in fixing up any past (c) mistakes, someone
> else or the FSF would have to spend their time on that. I just want
> to clarify the policy for future submissions.

Petr,

I think you're on the right path here and I appreciate your effort!

We don't have very clear policy here and we should, so you're blazing
a trail here for the community.

Whatever conclusion we reach we should document it in the wiki and
teach the new volunteers about it.

Cheers,
Carlos.