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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 23:52:46
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_q6hxU4UmfhwLJ8ai+HNhQrNiTG6diFkcUQYtUqxQB55A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 I refuse to sign anything.
2
3 If the GPL works as intended, then anyone using my work would
4 themselves be making a derived work of their own for which they
5 themselves could enforce the GPL.
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8 On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote:
9 > On 06/01/2018 12:24 AM, Jonas Stein wrote:
10 >>> We simply cannot. We have files in the Gentoo repository that are not
11 >>> under a free software license, and for these we need an extra clause.
12 >>> Otherwise we would have to specify in the policy that certain commits
13 >>> are excepted from the requirement of a Signed-off-by line, and IMHO
14 >>> that would be a much worse solution.
15 >> That is a good point.
16 >> Which files do not have a free software license in the tree?
17 >
18 > The best example is likely most license files themselves that are not
19 > malleable.
20 >
21 > --
22 > Kristian Fiskerstrand
23 > OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
24 > fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
25 >

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