Re: TODO List?

[Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> [If you intend for your research work to be usable by and incorporated
> into mainline GDB some day, you may want to work on copyright
> assignment paperwork.  Since this is university research work, the
> university would have to submit some paperwork too - this can take ages
> to sort out, so if you want it done, it's good to start early :-)]

Right, and it is often very hard to convince universities to yield the
"intellectual property rights" involved. But please try hard. An
interesting little note here is that the government contract for gnat
required the copyright to be assigned to the FSF (this contract
actually had the entire text of the GPL and required release under
the GPL, a quite interesting provision for such a contract). At the
end of the period of support, NYU initially balked at assigning the
copyright, but I pointed out they had signed a contract requiring
them to do so, and they finally did.

If anyone has trouble negotiating with university authorities in
this regard, I am happy to try to help out (since I have had quite
a bit of experience in doing this in a university environment).

Robert Dewar