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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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>On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:26:30AM -0500 or thereabouts, Deedra Waters wrote: |
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>>If the current form isn't enforceable, then having people sign it doesn't really do us much good |
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>Regardless of whether or not it's enforceable, I think enough devs have |
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>expressed concern about the things it purports to enforce. |
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>IMO, we should heed those concerns, stop requiring new devs to sign the doc |
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>and figure out a way to get a better doc in place. |
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>--kurt |
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Ok, so I was just talking to dmwaters on irc and she mentioned this part |
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that I may have missed, that efforts were going on to redraft a new |
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contract. I'd like to take this chance to voice my concern about this |
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and suggest that we forego a contract of this nature (if we can even do |
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it legally wrt <18, other countries, etc, etc) and treat copyright |
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assignment just like any other devrel issue. Basically I suggest just |
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saying that some inclusive list of files such as ebuilds, init scripts, |
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gentoo specific scripts in cvs, what-have-you and treat it like a devrel |
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issue if that doesn't happen. |
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What I'm thinking is that we don't have a contract saying you won't do |
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something malicious in an ebuild, and we don't need to. If something |
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like that happened disciplinary action would be taken against the dev |
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and I assume he/she would be dismissed. Why is the copyright assignment |
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any different? If a developer doesn't assign the copyright we just say |
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'hey, you can't do that, you can either change it or remove it and cease |
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being a dev' |
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A contract is superfluous and chances are it's unenforcable anyway, no |
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other (?) GPL projects do this do they? Do other community based distros? |
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Joshua Brindle |
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