[PATCH V2] manual/string.texi: Add description of envz_remove

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Mar  5, 2015, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I see no copyright assignment in place for glibc from Fujitsu.
> 
> I see Ma Shimiao's assignment on file since 2015-02-18.  We don't need
> an assignment from Fujitsu, as long as Fujitsu does not hold a copyright
> over the contributed changes, and I understand the assignment process
> has already covered that question.  Is that not so?

I don't think copyright.list recording an individual assignment carries 
any implication as to whether an employer disclaimer is also needed.

maintain.texi says "We may also need an employer's disclaimer from the 
person's employer, which confirms that the work was not part of the 
person's job and the employer makes no claim on it.  However, a copy of 
the person's employment contract, showing that the employer can't claim 
any rights to this work, is often sufficient.".  So either there should be 
a disclaimer in copyright.list, or the FSF should confirm that they've 
seen the employment contract and a disclaimer isn't needed or that the "Do 
you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own your changes?  
Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?" question in 
request-assign.* was answered in a way indicating no disclaimer is needed.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com