Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-managers@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright forms and new devs
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:57:14
Message-Id: 200407011557.06441.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright forms and new devs by Corey Shields
1 On Thursday 01 July 2004 15:40, Corey Shields wrote:
2 > On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:37 am, Kurt Lieber wrote:
3 > > Regardless of whether or not it's enforceable, I think enough devs
4 > > have expressed concern about the things it purports to enforce.
5 > >
6 > > IMO, we should heed those concerns, stop requiring new devs to sign
7 > > the doc and figure out a way to get a better doc in place.
8 >
9 > There is really no reason to continue signing copyright over to Gentoo
10 > Technologies, so until this all changes to the new Foundation, I have
11 > to agree with putting these on hold, with the agreement that they will
12 > be signing one later.
13
14 Appart from the fact that enough people (including trustees (myself
15 included)) have not actually signed the statement, the statement is
16 indeed broken so I agree on postponing it. Also we might not need the
17 whole copyright. The only thing we want to be able to do is to fight
18 battles in court without having to make many many party in the battle.
19
20 Paul
21
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23 Paul de Vrieze
24 Gentoo Developer
25 Mail: pauldv@g.o
26 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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