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[Replying to gentoo-project only.] |
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>>>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:35:41PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> After five days, I have received only 13 replies from developers, |
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>> and it seems impossible to draw any conclusion from such a small |
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>> number. (Especially, does the absense of an answer imply that the |
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>> person doesn't care and would therefore also not sign the CLA? Not |
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>> sure.) |
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>> Crossposting to -core now for a wider audience, at least amongst |
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>> devs. Developers and other contributors, please reply. |
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> As I stated before privately, I think this is a horrid idea. You |
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> are creating yet-another-development-process that anyone who is |
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> employed by _ANY_ company is going to have to go and get their |
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> employer's permission to do so. |
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> That means, at the least, lots of billable lawyer hours, and at the |
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> worse, lots of people not being able to contribute. |
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> And while I haven't really done any Gentoo work in many years, it |
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> _will_ prevent me from doing any future work. |
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Please read the whole thread. We have dropped the FLA/CLA in the |
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latest iteration. Also even in the previous versions it was meant to |
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be voluntary, i.e. devs were "welcome and encouraged (but *not* |
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required)" to sign it. |
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> And again, as I previously stated, "forking" the DCO is a horrible |
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> idea, |
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Has there ever been a wider review of the Linux DCO? If not, then it |
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is not surprising if it fits the needs of kernel development only |
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(which is very homogeneous, license wise), but not necessarily other |
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projects. |
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> and doing it by not getting legal review of such changes is an even |
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> worse idea. |
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> Would you want a medical doctor to write a legal document? If not, |
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> why would you want a programmer to do so? |
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Are you saying that the DCO is so complicated that all devs will need |
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a lawyer, in order to understand what they are certifying? Then we are |
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doing something fundamentally wrong. |
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Ulrich |
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