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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/Copyright/assign.manual b/gnulib/doc/Copyright/assign.manual new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c566d77 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/Copyright/assign.manual @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +The way to assign copyright on this manual to the Foundation is to +sign an assignment contract. + +In addition, if you have made an agreement with an employer or school +to give them rights to such work, or if it might be considered part of +your job, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your +employer or school, disclaiming rights to the manual. + +The disclaimer should be signed by a vice president or general manager +of the company. If you can't get at them, anyone else authorized to +license works produced there will do. Here is a sample wording: + + Digital Stimulation Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright interest + in the manual, "The Automatic Manual", written by Mr. Write, including + both the present version of the manual and his/her future changes and + enhancements to it. We do not consider it or them as a work made + for hire for us. + + <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1987 + Ty Coon, President of Vice, Digital Stimulation Corp. + +IMPORTANT: When you talk to your employer, *no matter what +instructions they have given you*, don't fail to show them the sample +disclaimer above. Companies are usually willing to sign a disclaimer +without any fuss. If you vary the request, or make it less specific, +you are liable to open a Pandora's Box and cause a long and +unnecessary delay. + +Below is the assignment contract that we usually use. You would need +to print it out, sign it, and snail it to me: + +Richard Stallman +77 Mass Ave rm 32-381 +Cambridge MA 02139 +USA + +Snail me a copy of the employer's disclaimer as well. + +Please send me email about what you decide to do. If you have any +questions, or would like something to be changed, ask me via email. + ASSIGNMENT + + For $1 and other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which I +acknowledge, I, NAME OF PERSON, hereby transfer to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc. (the "Foundation") my entire right, title, and interest +(including all rights under copyright) in my manual "NAME OF MANUAL" (the +"Work"), subject to the conditions below. The work hereby assigned shall +further include any future changes and/or enhancements hereafter made by me. + + Upon thirty days' prior written notice, the Foundation agrees to grant me +non-exclusive rights to use the Work as I see fit; (and the Foundation's +rights shall otherwise continue unchanged). + + For the purposes of this contract, a work "based on the Work" means any +work that in whole or in part incorporates or is derived from all or part of +the Work. + + The Foundation promises that all distribution of the Work, or of any +work "based on the Work", that takes place under the control of the +Foundation or its agents or assignees, shall be on terms that explicitly and +perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms +apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute copies +of the work to anyone on the same terms. These terms shall not restrict which +members of the public copies may be distributed to. These terms shall not +require a member of the public to pay any royalty to the Foundation or to +anyone else for any permitted use of the work they apply to, or to communicate +with the Foundation or its agents in any way either when redistribution is +performed or on any other occasion. + + The Foundation promises that any work "based on the Work" which is +a program, and which is offered to the public by the Foundation or its +agents or assignees, shall be offered in the form of machine-readable +source code, in addition to any other forms of the Foundation's +choosing. However, the Foundation is free to choose at its +convenience the media of distribution for machine-readable source +code. + + The Foundation promises to give or send me, upon reasonable prior notice +and payment of a fee no more than twenty times the cost of the necessary +materials and postage, a copy of any or all of the works "based on the +Work" that it offers to the public or that it has offered within the past +six months, or that it distributed for the first time within the past six +months. For works that are programs, the machine-readable source code shall +be included. My request shall detail whether I wish to receive all such works +or specific works. My choice of works to request may affect the cost and +therefore the fee. + + I hereby represent and warrant that I am the sole copyright holder for the +Work and that I have the right and power to enter into this contract. I +hereby indemnify and hold harmless the Foundation, its officers, employees, +and agents against any and all claims, actions or damages (including +attorney's reasonable fees) asserted by or paid to any party on account of a +breach or alleged breach of the foregoing warranty. I make no other express +or implied warranty (including without limitation, in this disclaimer of +warranty, any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). + +Agreed: [signature and date] + + + +ACCEPTED: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Thanks for contributing to the GNU project! + +Richard M. Stallman, President + +Please write down the answers to these questions, and snail this page +with your assignment. + +[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] + + +[What year were you born?] + + +[What is your email address?] + + +[Please write your snail address here, so we can snail a copy back to you.] |