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 13:49:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23313.12976.282623.941104@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_nL7LEisTaJ1mnqT1gQ=Wz5_Hg740+oRrra6oo8R9+OXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Thu, 31 May 2018, Rich Freeman wrote:
> * One of the goals originally in the FLA was to make it exclusive in
> a way that would ensure that Gentoo would know that you hadn't given
> somebody else permission to use your contribution under a non-free
> license (which means we know anybody doing this is in violation).
> However, looking at the wording of section 2.3 of the new version I'm
> not sure that this feature even applies anymore, as there don't seem
> to be any copyleft restrictions on the grant back and its ability to
> relicense. That seems like a bug the FSFe might want to look into.
> In any case, without an FLA with the correct wording, there is no way
> to know if somebody is in violation without contacting the original
> contributor, because the original contributor could have given them
> permission to use it under a non-free license. This makes detecting
> violations more difficult.
The old version (1.2) of FSFE's FLA, §3 (2) has this:
"Furthermore, FSFE grants to Beneficiary additional non- exclusive,
transferable license to use, reproduce, redistribute and make
available the Software as needed for releases of the Software under
other licences."
IIUC that woudln't have prevented distribution by the original author
under a non-free license either.
Ulrich
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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 [this message]
2018-06-01 1:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
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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