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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 03:52:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23312.42718.417419.212368@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535aa147-a5b3-2578-fb4c-b59fc85af155@gentoo.org>

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>>>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Jonas Stein wrote:

> On 2018-05-30 23:44, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> We simply cannot. We have files in the Gentoo repository that are not
>> under a free software license, and for these we need an extra clause.
>> Otherwise we would have to specify in the policy that certain commits
>> are excepted from the requirement of a Signed-off-by line, and IMHO
>> that would be a much worse solution.

> That is a good point.
> Which files do not have a free software license in the tree?
> Are these just some patches or files in the "files" folder of the
> packages or is there something else?

The main concern are license files which are not modifiable. These are
located either in the licenses dir of the Gentoo repository, but it
also applies to COPYING (i.e., GPL) files in any project repositories.

With the new policy in force, non-free third party patches would have
to be excluded from the Gentoo repository in any case, and would e.g.
be packed into a tarball and placed on distfile mirrors. (Last time I
checked, there were only few non-free patches around, though. It is
rare for software to be patchable and distributable, while at the same
time having a non-free license.)

> Are we allowed to use the free github repository for non free files?

If the policy would force us to resort to such tricks, then something
would be wrong with that policy. It is supposed to apply to all
repositories of Gentoo projects, regardless of where they are hosted.

> We could upload the non free files to a different space and exclude
> these from the repository, like we do it for large patches already.

Ulrich

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-01  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 14:36 [gentoo-project] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 17:45 ` Robin H. Johnson
2018-05-30 18:56   ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:02     ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31  5:48   ` kuzetsa
2018-05-31 18:53     ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found] ` <20180530182136.GB18004@kroah.com>
2018-05-30 21:44   ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 22:31     ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:44       ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found]     ` <20180531070321.GC7744@kroah.com>
2018-05-31  9:34       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:18       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:23         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 22:24     ` Jonas Stein
2018-05-31 22:27       ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-05-31 23:52         ` Raymond Jennings
2018-06-01  1:55           ` R0b0t1
2018-06-01  2:32             ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-01 11:49               ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-01  1:52       ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2018-06-04 12:35 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:44   ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
     [not found]   ` <20180625013334.GA28404@kroah.com>
2018-06-25  6:50     ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25  7:02       ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
     [not found]       ` <20180625070525.GA6151@kroah.com>
2018-06-25  7:54         ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found]           ` <20180625110540.GB3058@kroah.com>
2018-06-25 14:08             ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 14:37             ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 14:46               ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 14:56                 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 15:53                   ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 16:50                     ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 19:02                       ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:13                         ` Michał Górny
2018-06-25 20:28                           ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-06-25 20:33                           ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:31                     ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 20:52                       ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 21:06                         ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 21:06                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 22:10                           ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 23:55                     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-25 16:54                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 17:10                   ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 17:37                     ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-09  9:02 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller

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