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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> If you have any concerns/objections to the policy which was outlined, |
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> which includes a mandatory requirement to sign a contributor license |
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> agreement and an option to also sign an assignment-like document based |
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> on the FSFe FLA, please speak up this week. |
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I've already said this before, but I guess I need to say it again: |
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If a contributor license is required to be signed, I'll have to |
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stop contributing to Gentoo. |
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Other developers will be also affected, and you will find it hard to |
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attract new developers who happen to work for companies that forbid |
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their employees to sign these types of things (a _very_ common thing in |
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the US, I have yet to work for a company in the past 20+ years that |
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would have allowed this without going through the company's legal |
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council for approval, a usually very difficult thing to achieve for a |
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single developer.) |
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I was here when the copyright assignment form was dropped due to all of |
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the problems it was causing new developers (myself included.) Have you |
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somehow figured out how to handle all of the issues that were raised 8+ |
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years ago with the old assignment we had? |
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Is there really no one around now (other than myself) that had to deal |
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with that mess in the past? |
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History, forgetting it, doomed. |
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sadly, |
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greg k-h |