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-The way to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation is to sign
-an assignment contract. This is what legally makes the Free Software
-Foundation the copyright holder so that we can register the copyright
-on the new version. I'm assuming that you wrote these changes
-yourself; if other people wrote parts, we may need papers from them.
-
-If you are employed to do programming (even at a university), or have
-made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns programs
-you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your
-employer disclaiming rights to the program.
-
-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 software produced there will do. Here is a sample wording:
-
- Digital Stimulation Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright interest
- in the changes and enhancements made by Hugh Heffner to the program
- "libstdc++", also including any future revisions of these changes and
- enhancements.
-
- Digital Stimulation Corporation affirms that it has no other
- intellectual property interest that would undermine this release, or
- the use of the Program, and will do nothing to undermine it in the
- future.
-
- <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1987
- Ty Coon, President of Vice, Digital Stimulation Corp.
-
-(If your employer says they do have an intellectual property claim
-that could conflict with the use of the program, then please put me in
-touch with a suitable representative of the company, so that we can
-negotiate what to do about it.)
-
-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, or a disclaimer with the details filled in for your
-specific case. Companies are usually willing to sign a disclaimer
-without any fuss. If you make your request less specific, you may
-open Pandora's box and cause a long and unnecessary delay.
-
-Below is the assignment contract that we usually use. You need
-to print it out, sign it, and snail it to:
-
-Richard Stallman
-545 Tech Sq rm 425
-Cambridge, MA 02139
-USA
-
-Please try to print the whole first page below on a single piece of
-paper. If it doesn't fit on one printed page, put it on two sides of
-a single piece of paper.
-
-Don't forget to put down the date when you sign! Spell out the month
-name--don't use a number for the month. Dates using a number for the
-month are ambiguous; 2/8/95 means one thing in the US and another in
-Europe.
-
-Snail 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 bkoz@gnu.org via
-email.
-\f ASSIGNMENT
-
- For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which I
-acknowledge, I, [your name here], hereby transfer to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc. (the "Foundation") my entire right, title, and
-interest (including all rights under copyright) in my changes and
-enhancements to the libstdc++ library, subject to the conditions
-below. These changes and enhancements are herein called the "Work".
-The work hereby assigned shall also include any future revisions of
-these changes and enhancements hereafter made by me.
-
- Upon thirty days' prior written notice, the "Foundation" agrees to
-grant me non-exclusive rights to use the Work (i.e. my changes and
-enhancements, not the program which I enhanced) as I see fit; (and
-the "Foundation"'s rights shall otherwise continue unchanged).
-
- I hereby agree that if I have or acquire hereafter any patent or
-interface copyright or other intellectual property interest dominating
-the program enhanced by the Work (or use of that program), such
-dominating interest will not be used to undermine the effect of this
-assignment, i.e. the "Foundation" and the general public will be
-licensed to use, in that program and its derivative works, without
-royalty or limitation, the subject matter of the dominating interest.
-This license provision will be binding on my heirs, assignees, or
-other successors to the dominating interest, as well as on me.
-
- 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] Date [Write the month with LETTERS]:
-
-
-For the "Foundation",
-Richard Stallman, head dude in charge
-\f
-Please do not delete the control-l character before this line.
-Please print this as a separate page.
-
-Please email a copy of the information on this page to
-fsf-records@gnu.ai.mit.edu, and cc bkoz@gnu.org, if you can, so that
-our clerk doesn't have to type it in. Use your full name as the
-subject line.
-
-[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?
-What year were you born?]
-
-
-[Please write your email address here.]
-
-
-[Please write your snail address here, so we can snail a copy back to you.]
-
-
-
-[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
-so far?]
-
-
-[Which Belgian comic book character is better, Tintin or Asterix, and why?]
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