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+The way to assign copyright to the Foundation is to sign an assignment
+contract. This is what legally makes the FSF 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 writing (even at a university), or have
+made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns text
+you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your
+employer disclaiming rights to your changes.
+
+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 manuals 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
+ manual "The Seduction Manual", also including any future revisions
+ of these changes and enhancements. We do not consider 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, 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 would need
+to print it out, sign it, and snail it to:
+
+Copyright Clerk
+59 Temple Place, Suite 330
+Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+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 rms@ai.mit.edu via email.
+\f ASSIGNMENT
+
+ For 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 changes and enhancements to the manual "NAME OF
+MANUAL", 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 manual which I enhanced) 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 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 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. 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] Date:
+
+
+ACCEPTED: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Thanks for contributing to the GNU project!
+
+Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director
+\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.org, if you can, so that our clerk doesn't have
+to type it in. Use your full name as the subject line.
+
+Otherwise, please write down the answers and snail this 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.]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
+so far?]
--- /dev/null
+The way to assign copyright to the Foundation is to sign an assignment
+contract. This is what legally makes the FSF 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 writing (even at a university), or have
+made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns text
+you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your
+employer disclaiming rights to your changes.
+
+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 manuals 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
+ manual "The Seduction Manual", including both those he has already
+ made and those he will make in the future. We do not consider them
+ as works 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, 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 would need
+to print it out, sign it, and snail it to:
+
+Copyright Clerk
+Free Software Foundation
+59 Temple Place, Suite 330
+Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+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 rms@ai.mit.edu via email.
+\f ASSIGNMENT
+
+ For 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 changes and enhancements to the manual "NAME OF
+MANUAL", including those I have already made and those I shall make in the
+future, subject to the conditions below. These changes and enhancements
+are herein called the "Work".
+
+ 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 manual which I enhanced) 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 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 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. 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] Date:
+
+
+For the Free Software Foundation,
+
+ACCEPTED: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Thanks for contributing to the GNU project!
+
+Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director
+\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.org, if you can, so that our clerk doesn't have
+to type it in. Use your full name as the subject line.
+
+Otherwise, please write down the answers and snail this 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.]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
+so far?]
--- /dev/null
+I'd like to ask you to sign a disclaimer for your changes,
+thus putting them in the public domain. (For small to medium changes
+such as this, that is just as good for us as assigning copyright.)
+I'm assuming that you wrote these changes yourself;
+if other people wrote parts, we may need papers from them.
+
+ I, <name of person>, hereby disclaim all copyright interest in my
+ changes and enhancements to the manual <manual>.
+
+ I affirm that I have no other intellectual property interest that
+ would undermine this release. I represent that these changes and
+ enhancements are my own and not a copy of someone else's work.
+
+ <signature and date>
+
+*Don't forget to include the date.*
+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.
+
+If your job includes writing manuals (even at a university), or have
+made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns manuals
+you write, then we also need a signed disclaimer from your employer or
+school.
+
+This 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 a manual 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
+ manual "The Seduction Manual". We do not consider them as a work
+ made for hire for us.
+
+ Digital Stimulation Corporation affirms that it has no other
+ intellectual property interest that would undermine this release.
+
+ <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 releasing your changes, 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.
+
+Please snail the signed disclaimers to:
+
+Attn: Disclaimer Clerk
+Free Software Foundation
+59 Temple Place, Suite 330
+Boston, MA 02111-1307
+USA
+
+Please print your email address on the printed disclaimer.
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