Access to the copyright assignment file

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 09/26/2017 03:31 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> 
>> Carlos,
>>
>> Are there any risks to opening up access to the copyright lists file on
>> fencepost to more people or even making it public?  It might be easier
>> for everyone to do that check when reviewing patches, or even have a
>> script check submissions against the copyright file, although the latter
>> might be a bit harder to implement.
> 
> Please read the notice at the top of the file.

He cannot read the top of the file because he is not a GNU Maintainer and
does not have access to fencepost.
 
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Correct.

Instead of lobying to change the FSF policy, my suggestion would be that
we rework the process for becoming a GNU Maintainer (steward) for glibc
such that we have enough stewards to answer copyright questions.

Right now we have 9 listed stewards, and 5 are not really actively involved
in the day-to-day running of the project. 

Would you like to become a steward? :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.