Re: [PATCH] Add 'safe-alloc' module

[Micah Cowan]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Please excuse my (mostly-ignorant) intrusion, but are you sure Red Hat 
>     does not already have an assignment on file? (I'm sure I heard somewhere 
>     that they do at least for certain GNU projects...)
> 
> Indeed, Red Hat does, as an employer.  I have been told that RH
> employees don't even need to sign individual disclaimers, but I am not
> sure if that is really true.  I'll ask address@hidden

Google has a similar thing, and an employee made contributions to Wget.
The copyright clerk's answer (at that time, it was Jonas Jacobson) was
that if the contributions were made on behalf of Google, then no
disclaimer was needed, but that if they were made on their own time, a
personal assignment was preferred.

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Micah J. Cowan
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