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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On a personal note, if any copyright assignment was in place, I would |
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> never have been able to become a Gentoo developer, and if it were to be |
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> put into place, I do not think that I would be allowed to continue to be |
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> one. I'm sure lots of other current developers are in this same |
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> situation, so please keep that in mind when reviewing this process. |
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This is a question for gregkh primarily, but I would also like to extend |
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it to all other Gentoo developers. |
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1. Are you party to any *copyright assignment* (eg FSF copyright assignment)? |
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2. Are you party to any *contributor license agreements* (eg FLA, Google CLA, ...)? [2] |
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3. Are you party to any other *license assertions* (eg DCO)? [3] |
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4. Are you party to or aware of any other copyright aggregation efforts? [4] |
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[2] |
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Contributor License Agreements: |
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Google CLA: |
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http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html |
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FSF Europe FLA: |
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http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html |
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Oracle Contributor Agreement: |
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html |
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The historical Sun Contributor Agreement and MySQL Community |
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Contribution Agreement |
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Many more here: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement |
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[3] |
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License assertions: |
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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches#l298 |
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[4] |
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Copyright aggregation: |
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Canonical's Project Harmony is the only aggregation effort I'm aware of. |
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http://harmonyagreements.org/overview.html |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Harmony_(FOSS_group) |
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They provide an excellent guide to many of the nuances between copyright |
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assignments and contributer agreements: |
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http://harmonyagreements.org/guide.html |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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