[Systers-dev] Copyright assignment for upstream contributions to Mailman

[Terri Oda]

Something to think about for GSoC students:

While I don't think we have any particular copyright needs for code we 
want to run for Systers, anyone interested in contributing to upstream 
Mailman may need to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/GNU+copyright+assignment+request+form

You still get credit for your code (including a thank you in our 
acknowledgements section), and when I did it the FSF sent me some GNU 
stickers as a thank you. ;)

I don't anticipate this being a problem for most summer of code 
students, but if you think it could be (i.e. someone else has some say 
in what you do with your intellectual property, like your university or 
another employer) or you have any questions about how this works and 
what it means and why we do it, it's better to ask early and get that 
sorted out in advance!

  Terri