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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:48:54
Message-Id: CAEdQ38GrAL3+-8jz_gyb-EyXz+tYet=noiiFQUK==+pTntkBBg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions by Rich Freeman
1 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > I personally tend to favor a mandatory DCO (we absolutely need to know
3 > the copyright status of our code), and a voluntary FLA (which I tend
4 > to prefer to outright assignment as I think it lines up well with our
5 > always-free social contract).
6
7 Do you have any ideas about how that might work for previous
8 contributions? Plenty of developers have come and gone (and died!)
9 since gentoo began accepting commits.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>