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+The way to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation is to sign
+an assignment contract.  This is what legally makes the Free Software
+Foundation 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 programming (even at a university), or have
+made an agreement with your employer or school saying it owns programs
+you write, then you and we need a signed piece of paper from your
+employer disclaiming rights to the program.
+
+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 software 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 program
+  "libstdc++", also including any future revisions of these changes and
+  enhancements.
+
+  Digital Stimulation Corporation affirms that it has no other
+  intellectual property interest that would undermine this release, or
+  the use of the Program, and will do nothing to undermine it in the
+  future.
+
+  <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 the use of the program, 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.
+
+Below is the assignment contract that we usually use.  You need
+to print it out, sign it, and snail it to:
+
+Richard Stallman 
+545 Tech Sq rm 425 
+Cambridge, MA 02139 
+USA 
+
+Please try to print the whole first page below on a single piece of
+paper.  If it doesn't fit on one printed page, put it on two sides of
+a single piece of paper.
+
+Don't forget to put down the date when you sign!  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.
+
+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 bkoz@gnu.org via
+email.
+                           ASSIGNMENT
+
+   For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which I
+acknowledge, I, [your name here], 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 libstdc++ library, 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 program which I enhanced) as I see fit; (and
+the "Foundation"'s rights shall otherwise continue unchanged).
+
+   I hereby agree that if I have or acquire hereafter any patent or
+interface copyright or other intellectual property interest dominating
+the program enhanced by the Work (or use of that program), such
+dominating interest will not be used to undermine the effect of this
+assignment, i.e.  the "Foundation" and the general public will be
+licensed to use, in that program and its derivative works, without
+royalty or limitation, the subject matter of the dominating interest.
+This license provision will be binding on my heirs, assignees, or
+other successors to the dominating interest, as well as on me.
+
+   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 [Write the month with LETTERS]:
+
+
+For the "Foundation",
+Richard Stallman, head dude in charge
+
+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.ai.mit.edu, and cc bkoz@gnu.org, if you can, so that
+our clerk doesn't have to type it in.  Use your full name as the
+subject line.
+
+[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?
+What year were you born?]
+
+
+[Please write your email address here.]
+
+
+[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?]
+
+
+[Which Belgian comic book character is better, Tintin or Asterix, and why?]
+