[Erc-help] Re: ERC assignment to the FSF

[Alex S. <al...@em...>]

This mail goes out to all ERC contributors.  It may concern you if you
*already* assigned "past and future changes" to Emacs.  I just got the
following email from as...@gn....

Alex.

    From: FSF Copyright Assignment Clerk <as...@gn...>
    Subject: Re: Alex Schroeder
    To: al...@em...
    CC: as...@gn...
    Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:53:08 -0400

Good luck!  Of course, with the smaller contributors, some of them may have
contributed only a few lines, and the papers wouldn't be necessary.

Since this is a package which was previously not a part of Emacs, it would
probably be good to have people who already have a "past and future changes"
copyright assignment for Emacs on file either sign separate papers for this,
or else confirm clearly that they are willing to consider their contributions
to ERC as covered by their Emacs copyright assignment.  I think Mario Lang
is in that category, for instance.  They can email me and I'll come up the
the exact language to use that we will accept (I don't remember it offhand.)

- Brian Youmans, FSF copyright clerk