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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I personally tend to favor a mandatory DCO (we absolutely need to know |
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>> the copyright status of our code), and a voluntary FLA (which I tend |
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>> to prefer to outright assignment as I think it lines up well with our |
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>> always-free social contract). |
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> Do you have any ideas about how that might work for previous |
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> contributions? Plenty of developers have come and gone (and died!) |
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> since gentoo began accepting commits. |
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Existing copyright headers would be grandfathered as-is unless |
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somebody comes forward with a specific concern. Over time the tree |
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just improves. That is my suggestion at least, it is certainly no |
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worse than we are today, and a decade from now the really old stuff |
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will be gone. |
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Rich |
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