Re: Cirrus Logic EP93XX ARM9 support

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>]

Austin, Brian wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have been trying to find the paper work to mail off to the FSF, but
> cant find it.  Legal gave it the go ahead.
>
> I totally folded on this and am sorry,
>
> Can you point me to the person at the FSF to resend me the paper work,
> so I can sign it and send it off.

Hi Brian,

This page gives you the form you need to fill in, and the email address 
for it go to. They'll then send you the paperwork again.

http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/assign.html

Thanks for contributing!

Jifl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H Hartley Sweeten [mailto:hartleys@visionengravers.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:30 AM
> To: Austin, Brian
> Cc: Jonathan Larmour; Gary Thomas; ecos-patches@ecos.sourceware.org;
> eCos Maintainers
> Subject: RE: Cirrus Logic EP93XX ARM9 support
>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:19 PM, Austin, Brian wrote:
>
> > Crap!  Sorry guys,
> >
> > I'll mail that off.
>
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> Hate to be a pain but, did you ever get the paperwork submitted to the
> FSF to transfer the copyright assignment for the Cirrus ep93xx eCos
> port?
>
> Thanks,
> Hartley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: H Hartley Sweeten [mailto:hartleys@visionengravers.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:11 PM
> To: Austin, Brian
> Cc: Jonathan Larmour; Gary Thomas; ecos-patches@ecos.sourceware.org;
> eCos Maintainers
> Subject: RE: Cirrus Logic EP93XX ARM9 support
>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:54 PM, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
> > H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:19 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Gary Thomas wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Does anyone know the status of the Cirrus Logic EP93XX ARM9
>
> support?
>
> > > > > > > http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000739
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Was the copyright assignment to the FSF completed?  If so, would
>
> it
>
> > > > > > > be possible to at least get the new file pieces of the patch into
> > > > > > > CVS so that they can be cleaned up?  The diff appears fairly
>
> clean
>
> > > > > > > except for a couple of issues.  Following are the files in the
>
> patch.
>
> > > > > > AFAIK, we've not had official confirmation from FSF yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unless they've submitted it very recently, then I suspect they
>
> never
>
> > > > > made an assignment.
> > > >
> > > > They claim to have submitted it [not so] recently - probably April
> > > > timeframe, maybe a bit later.  It should be in the logs (I don't
>
> have
>
> > > > time to search right now).
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know the status of this?
> > >
> > > I have a number of updates/cleanups I would like to submit but the
> > > original patch is still not in CVS.
> >
> > I'm afraid there is still no record with the FSF that they've
>
> submitted an 
>
> > assignment. Either the FSF haven't updated their master database, or
>
> they 
>
> > never actually completed the assignment. I think you'd need to ask
>
> Cirrus.
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> On May 12, 2009 you posted this message to the ecos-discuss list:
>
>
> > I am sending off the contracts to the FSF, and have posted the patch
>
> for
>
> > the Cirrus Port's to the ecos bugzilla.  Hopefully someone will start
>
> to
>
> > forward port the code base.
>
>
> Did the contracts ever get submitted?  Your patch is still in the ecos
> bugzilla but cannot be added until they receive the official
> confirmation
> from FSF.
>
> Thanks,
> Hartley


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