[gentoo-project] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> A while back I requested information on past copyright assignments [1].
> Since then, we have located some 30 of the assignment forms, signed by
> developers (most of them retired by now) in 2004.

> Here is the second part of the exercise. The current draft of the new
> Gentoo copyright policy [2] arranges for two procedures:

> 1. Certifying agreement to a "Gentoo Developer's Certificate of Origin"
>    by including a "Signed-off-by" line with every commit. This would
>    be virtually identical to the procedure used for the Linux kernel,
>    and would be mandatory. A draft of the Gentoo DCO can be seen at [3].

> 2. In addition, according to the current policy draft, developers would
>    be encouraged to sign a "Gentoo Contributor License Agreement (CLA)".
>    Its current draft version is at [4]. However, this would be
>    completely voluntary and *not* be required. The exact workflow
>    hasn't been drafted yet, but PGP signing of the form would be one
>    possibility. (Also note that the form includes fields for real name
>    and postal address.)

> The goals of the second item is to "make compliance with this policy
> easier (fewer copyright holders to list), and allow the Foundation to
> enforce copyrights and re-license content if appropriate" [2].
> Apparently, we will only be able to achieve these goals if a
> significant fraction of contributors will sign the CLA.

> So, before I pursue more work on the CLA I would like to ask all
> developers and contributors:

> - Would you sign a "Gentoo Contributor License Agreement", similar to
>   the current draft in [4]?

After five days, I have received only 13 replies from developers, and
it seems impossible to draw any conclusion from such a small number.
(Especially, does the absense of an answer imply that the person
doesn't care and would therefore also not sign the CLA? Not sure.)

Crossposting to -core now for a wider audience, at least amongst devs.
Developers and other contributors, please reply.

> Please reply to me personally; I shall post a summary to the
> gentoo-project mailing list in one week from now.

Ulrich

> [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/4958621b17b00eac7aaca1c8737b8b57
> [2] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-copyrightpolicy.html
> [3] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-copyrightpolicy.html#certificate-of-origin
> [4] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/cla/cla.pdf