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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> Before I start, yes, the trustees realize that there are legal issues |
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>> around copyright assignment in general, and that various workaround |
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>> exist and may or may not work, such as various contributor licensing |
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>> agreements that are used by various organizations, especially in |
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>> Europe. The purpose of this thread isn't really to debate this topic, |
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>> as it might be moot in any case. |
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> I understand your wish to somehow think that the legal issues involved |
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> have no pertinence to this discussion, but that just isn't the case. |
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No such wish exists. I just want to focus the discussion on the |
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larger question of whether we want to pursue assignment or something |
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like it, and not spend lots of time debating the details of how this |
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is done. If as you suggest we don't pursue assignment at all, then |
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there is no need to consider how we might have gone about it, had we |
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had that desire. |
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If this was not clear, I apologize. |
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> On a personal note, if any copyright assignment was in place, I would |
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> never have been able to become a Gentoo developer, and if it were to be |
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> put into place, I do not think that I would be allowed to continue to be |
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> one. I'm sure lots of other current developers are in this same |
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> situation, so please keep that in mind when reviewing this process. |
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Thanks, this is helpful to know. |
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Rich |