[gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> 
> If you have any concerns/objections to the policy which was outlined,
> which includes a mandatory requirement to sign a contributor license
> agreement and an option to also sign an assignment-like document based
> on the FSFe FLA, please speak up this week.

I've already said this before, but I guess I need to say it again:

	If a contributor license is required to be signed, I'll have to
	stop contributing to Gentoo.

Other developers will be also affected, and you will find it hard to
attract new developers who happen to work for companies that forbid
their employees to sign these types of things (a _very_ common thing in
the US, I have yet to work for a company in the past 20+ years that
would have allowed this without going through the company's legal
council for approval, a usually very difficult thing to achieve for a
single developer.)

I was here when the copyright assignment form was dropped due to all of
the problems it was causing new developers (myself included.)  Have you
somehow figured out how to handle all of the issues that were raised 8+
years ago with the old assignment we had?

Is there really no one around now (other than myself) that had to deal
with that mess in the past?

History, forgetting it, doomed.

sadly,

greg k-h