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>>>>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2022, Anna Vyalkova wrote: |
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> On 2022-06-18 19:35, Michael Jones wrote: |
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>> Re-evaluating your "signed off by" requirements on github, when |
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>> that's legally meaningless, and already covered by the existing |
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>> github terms of use, would also go a long way. |
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>> I explicitly will not contribute to a project that has that |
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>> requirement. |
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>> https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#d-user-generated-content |
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Maybe I am missing something, but where do the GitHub ToS say that we |
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can take a contribution from a GitHub PR and distribute it outside? |
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> 1) We can't see if a commit comes from GitHub or somewhere else in the |
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> git history. This not only makes verification but also breaks |
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> verification tools (commit without signoff are rejected by gitolite's |
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> pre-push hook, github is just a mirror). |
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> 2) Gentoo has plans to move to their own GitLab instance. So binding |
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> themselves to GitHub ToS (that can be changes at any time and controlled |
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> by Miscro$oft) is stupid. |
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> 3) Commit author != GitHub user. |
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I think it's even three entities: author, committer, and GitHub user, |
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which can all be different. |
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> 4) **Most important point!** These ToS apply only to content hosted on |
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> GitHub! And you retain ownership only on github PRs, not the canonical |
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> repo. |
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> * the only thing I dislike and sabotage in Gentoo's signoff policy is |
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> that uses "legal name" instead of "real name" - change that already... |
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That wording went through several iterations, the last of which changed |
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it from "real name" to "legal name" [1]. |
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IIRC, the rationale behind this change was that "real name" was deemed |
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to vague, and to account for officially registered pseudonyms. |
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For example, the German passport has an optional field "religious name |
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or pseudonym" [2]. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/glep-0076.rst?id=dcc841a715dfa077258fa3f8bef5f15ee22148cb |
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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Following_page |
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