FX Coudert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That's true in the US as well, but what happens later on if your >> employer >> comes by later on and claims you DID use employer resources? Where >> would >> that leave the FSF? Very few employees have deep enough pockets to >> indemnify the FSF from their employer! > > Then, I think the FSF has no solution but to discard contributions > from quite a few people. How many employers actually are going to > issue such a disclaimer? In all academic places I know, at least, > you'll never get anything like that, just because it's not a standard > paper and they simply don't care about doing it.
I've never had much trouble getting the employer disclaimer personally (getting an employer assignment, on the other hand, has proved to be much more difficult). And I know people who have gotten the disclaimer even from European universities. > The fact is: the FSF doesn't request such a disclaimer. Little use > being more royalist than the king (don't know if that translates well > from the French idiom, but you get the idea). Sure, makes sense to me. Ian
