From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Buettner To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Spring cleaning of GDB's web pages Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:15:00 -0000 Message-id: <1010822181526.ZM31436@ocotillo.lan> References: <3B8088E7.90001@cygnus.com> <1010820184535.ZM15097@ocotillo.lan> <2950-Tue21Aug2001195546+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <1010822081612.ZM30078@ocotillo.lan> <1659-Wed22Aug2001115145+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00192.html On Aug 22, 11:51am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_6.html#SEC6 > > > > This page is not very helpful to someone who's trying to get the legal > > documents needed for contributing changes to GNU software. > > I don't see why: it clearly says how to get the documents. It tells maintainers who have access to GNU machines how to get the documents. The pointers it provides are useless to everyone else. I've been told that the new way to obtain these documents is to contact the appropriate maintainer. This individual will *hopefully* be responsive and send a small questionaire to the contributor. The contributor answers these questions and the responses allow the maintainer to send the contributor the correct legal documents. If this is the case, then the above process needs to be documented and the responsible maintainer(s) for GDB need to be listed so that a prospective contributor knows whom to contact... (Personally, I'd like to see the process streamlined a bit more so that filling out a web form would cause the appropriate legal documents to be displayed.) Kevin