On 16/03/2011 00:33, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/15/2011 8:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>> Jack Howarth<howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone else having problems getting the FSF copyright
>>>> clerk to complete the FSF paperwork? I am going on six months
>>>> now and the revised disclaimer that UC sent them still hasn't cleared
>>>> the FSF copyright office. Worse yet, the clerk hasn't responsed to
>>>> emails in the past few months. No one should have to suffer through
>>>> this just to donate their time to an open source project.
>>> I am also hearing complaints, though just today I did get a reply.
>> Who did the revision? If someone changes the standard FSf form, they
>> can expect a substantial delay, because issuing a legal opinion on
>> a modified document is not trivial, and it is not as though the FSF
>> has infinite legal resources.
>
> In this case requests for status from the FSF copyright clerk were going
> unanswered.
Is that the same kind of status that anyone with access to fencepost could
look up? I thought that the contents of copyright.list were pretty much the
definitive answer to all status questions.
cheers,
DaveK
