[ECOS] Red Hat and FSF Copyrights

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

People will be pleased to know that Red Hat have finally completed the 
assignment of eCos to the Free Software Foundation, originally announced 
in January 2004. This was the main obstacle to the transition of the eCos 
project to the FSF.

For a while, we will be in a state of transition, and there will be 
temporary inconsistencies. But for now, any copyrights in relation to Red 
Hat in eCos software can be considered to now be the FSF. Copyrights owned 
by maintainers and those assigned to eCosCentric will be transferred shortly.

There is a possibility of RedBoot being renamed due to trademark issues. 
We aren't certain if this will definitely be required and are still 
checking with the FSF lawyers, but it is a real possibility. We'll let 
everyone know if that decision is reached.

A more formal announcement will be made when the transition is fully 
complete. But we thought we'd share the good news with people.

And thanks to Red Hat and the FSF for completing the transition.

Jifl, on behalf of the maintainers
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