From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 11:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23323.38797.323416.209331@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23310.46809.293787.611345@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> A while back I requested information on past copyright assignments
> [1]. Since then, we have located some 30 of the assignment forms,
> signed by developers (most of them retired by now) in 2004.
> Here is the second part of the exercise. The current draft of the
> new Gentoo copyright policy [2] arranges for two procedures:
> 1. Certifying agreement to a "Gentoo Developer's Certificate of
> Origin" by including a "Signed-off-by" line with every commit.
> This would be virtually identical to the procedure used for the
> Linux kernel, and would be mandatory. A draft of the Gentoo DCO
> can be seen at [3].
> 2. In addition, according to the current policy draft, developers
> would be encouraged to sign a "Gentoo Contributor License
> Agreement (CLA)". Its current draft version is at [4]. However,
> this would be completely voluntary and *not* be required. The
> exact workflow hasn't been drafted yet, but PGP signing of the
> form would be one possibility. (Also note that the form includes
> fields for real name and postal address.)
> The goals of the second item is to "make compliance with this policy
> easier (fewer copyright holders to list), and allow the Foundation
> to enforce copyrights and re-license content if appropriate" [2].
> Apparently, we will only be able to achieve these goals if a
> significant fraction of contributors will sign the CLA.
> So, before I pursue more work on the CLA I would like to ask all
> developers and contributors:
> - Would you sign a "Gentoo Contributor License Agreement", similar
> to the current draft in [4]?
> Please reply to me personally; I shall post a summary to the
> gentoo-project mailing list in one week from now.
Time to post a summary: I have received 24 answers in total, 22 from
developers and 2 from users.
9 answers said they would sign such an agreement,
12 answers said they would not sign it, or would not be allowed to
by their employer,
3 answers were undecided or non-committal.
It is still difficult to extrapolate from these numbers. My impression
(also from replies in mailing lists) is that achieving 50% coverage
would be a very optimistic assumption. Also there were some very
active devs amongst the "no" replies.
For the time being, we have therefore removed the FLA/CLA section from
the (pre-)draft of the copyright policy [2]. I shall post it soon as a
GLEP draft for wider rewiev.
Thanks to everyone who has replied.
Ulrich
[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/4958621b17b00eac7aaca1c8737b8b57
[2] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-drafts/glep-0076.html
[3] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-drafts/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin
[4] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/cla/cla.pdf
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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
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 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
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