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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> By contrast, Gentoo is likely to have been cobbled |
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> together by a consensus of unqualified persons, and is quite unlikely to |
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> be defended in court, -should- it come to that (see recent legal case of |
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> McHardy et al). |
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If Gentoo used the Linux DCO, and Gentoo was sued in court, and the |
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Linux Foundation was not named in the suit, and the case hinged on the |
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DCO, I'm pretty skeptical that Gentoo would suddenly be flooded with |
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free legal aid from the Linux Foundation or similar organizations, |
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beyond what they'd receive if they had written their own DCO. |
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As far as I'm aware no DCO has much legal precedent backing it up |
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specifically, so while this could change in the future, it isn't much |
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of a factor at the present either. |
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Nothing wrong with having it legally reviewed, and I've yet to see |
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anybody oppose this being done. Everybody just seems to think that it |
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ought to be somebody else's job to do so. :) |
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Rich |
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