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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Forming Gentoo Policy - Copyright Assignment and Attribution
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Andreas K. Huettel
<dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. M=C3=A4rz 2013, 00:12:43 schrieb Rich Freeman:
>> So, clarification now that I'm back at a keyboard...
>>
>> DCO is mandatory, and is simply a declaration that the committer has
>> checked and the new code is distributed under the license chosen for
>> the project (see original email for details, but generally
>> GPL/BSD/etc). The Linux kernel is the main model for this. Since
>> Gentoo is not always being assigned copyright we need to have a clear
>> declaration that the code is available under a suitable free license
>> so that we can further distribute it.
If you read earlier in the thread, you will see an example of a DCO.
My naive understanding is that a DCO helps shore up the legal defense
the foundation may have when inevitable violations occur.
A DCO is mentioned in step 12:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=3Dblob=
;f=3DDocumentation/SubmittingPatches#l298
>>
>> FLA is optional, and is essentially a copyright assignment (or
>> reasonable facsimile in certain jurisdictions designed by the FSFe).
>> KDE is the main model for this.
>
> Which obviously means, now if everyone signs a KDE with GPL'ed key and se=
nds
> it with SPF to TGF (The Gentoo Foundation), everything is IPO. (In Perfec=
t
> Order.)
http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement
>
> Seriously, could you repeat this for laymen and non-americans?
Hey it all makes sense for us Americas, its you Europeans that make
stuff all complex :)
>
> --
>
> Andreas K. Huettel
> Gentoo Linux developer
> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> http://www.akhuettel.de/
>