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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm CCing this to gentoo-dev-announce since this has been a something |
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> high-profile topic, but all replies should stay on gentoo-nfp. |
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> In order to avoid completely undirected |
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> bikeshedding we're tossing out a strawman for how we might move |
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> forward. This isn't policy - just a proposal for policy, and |
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> decisiveness shouldn't be confused for any unwillingness to discuss |
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> alternatives. |
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To date there have been no responses. If none are received this week |
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the Trustees are likely to move forward with enacting a policy similar |
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to what was described. This might entail enlisting legal counsel. |
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(The final policy will be circulated for comment first, with the |
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caveat below.) |
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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. While we will of course |
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entertain comments on the final wording of the policy we do not want |
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to have any further debate on the overall direction once we start |
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bringing in lawyers. This is not a good use of our volunteer's time, |
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and possibly even a modest amount of the Foundation's money (obviously |
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we will make every attempt to use the former before the latter). Now |
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is the best time to make any big changes in our approach. |
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In short, speak now (on -nfp) or forever hold your peace... |
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Rich |
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