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Re: Who's maintaining CVS


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:31:48AM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:01:30AM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >>Jani appears to have forgotten that he did even submit his lwIP changes, 
> >>several months ago, using the very same principle, i.e. declaring the code 
> >>is being put in the public domain. The maintainers know full well about 
> >>this get-around :-).
> >>
> >>Peter is right that this is acceptable *however* we do not want to permit 
> >>this as the usual course of action.
> > 
> > 
> > As you may have found out by reading the rest of the thread, this was only 
> > the case if lwIP was original code written entirely by Jani himself.  If 
> > lwIP is based on original code distributed to to Jani under the modified-BSD
> > license, I believe this is not longer a correct method (this is detailed in 
> > later msg's). Pity.
> 
> The maintainers make an exception for assignment for an established 
> external open source project, assuming it has an appropriate licence - PD 
> or modified BSD is basically it. It is up to that external project to 
> enforce its own copyright with the licence they distribute it under.
> 
> However, it is the responsibility of the eCos maintainers to protect and 
> enforce the copyright and legal integrity of any other contributions to eCos.
> 
> No one needs to assign lwIP's copyright - if it was asked for before, it 
> may well have been simply because the person involved did not realise it 
> was an external established project. I know I've made mistakes like that 
> before. The same would not apply to modifications made to eCos itself to 
> support lwIP, as proved by the existing io/eth/current/src/lwip/eth_drv.c

Do I understand correctly that for this special case (lwIP as an established 
project distributed by its Copyright holders under modified-BSD), Copyright 
Assignment to Red Hat is (as an exception) not required for inclusion in the 
main tree ?

This would resolve all questions I had about this.

Peter
 
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