Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution

[Theo Chatzimichos]

On Monday 11 of March 2013 14:19:55 Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > If you have any concerns/objections to the policy which was outlined,
> > which includes a mandatory requirement to sign a contributor license
> > agreement and an option to also sign an assignment-like document based
> > on the FSFe FLA, please speak up this week.
>
> I've already said this before, but I guess I need to say it again:
>
> 	If a contributor license is required to be signed, I'll have to
> 	stop contributing to Gentoo.
>
> Other developers will be also affected, and you will find it hard to
> attract new developers who happen to work for companies that forbid
> their employees to sign these types of things (a _very_ common thing in
> the US, I have yet to work for a company in the past 20+ years that
> would have allowed this without going through the company's legal
> council for approval, a usually very difficult thing to achieve for a
> single developer.)
>
> I was here when the copyright assignment form was dropped due to all of
> the problems it was causing new developers (myself included.)  Have you
> somehow figured out how to handle all of the issues that were raised 8+
> years ago with the old assignment we had?
>
> Is there really no one around now (other than myself) that had to deal
> with that mess in the past?
>
> History, forgetting it, doomed.
>
> sadly,
>
> greg k-h

I'm not having any personal issue here, but I'm with Greg here, since this 
action means loosing any single contributor. We're a project ran by 
volunteers, we get more retirements than additions lately, and we can't even 
afford loosing anybody. -1 from me as well.

Theo