From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17009 invoked by alias); 14 May 2006 07:33:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 17000 invoked by uid 22791); 14 May 2006 07:33:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 14 May 2006 07:33:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4C348CD9B; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:33:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14625-01-2; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (nile.gnat.com [205.232.38.5]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E0548CBB1; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:33:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4466DD5C.4030008@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 15:02:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Quill , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: TODO List? References: <20060513154940.GB5022@nevyn.them.org> <20060514041846.GB18922@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060514041846.GB18922@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00190.txt.bz2 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