[gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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[Replying to gentoo-project only.]

>>>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:35:41PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> After five days, I have received only 13 replies from developers,
>> and it seems impossible to draw any conclusion from such a small
>> number. (Especially, does the absense of an answer imply that the
>> person doesn't care and would therefore also not sign the CLA? Not
>> sure.)
>> 
>> Crossposting to -core now for a wider audience, at least amongst
>> devs. Developers and other contributors, please reply.

> As I stated before privately, I think this is a horrid idea.  You
> are creating yet-another-development-process that anyone who is
> employed by _ANY_ company is going to have to go and get their
> employer's permission to do so.

> That means, at the least, lots of billable lawyer hours, and at the
> worse, lots of people not being able to contribute.

> And while I haven't really done any Gentoo work in many years, it
> _will_ prevent me from doing any future work.

Please read the whole thread. We have dropped the FLA/CLA in the
latest iteration. Also even in the previous versions it was meant to
be voluntary, i.e. devs were "welcome and encouraged (but *not*
required)" to sign it.

> And again, as I previously stated, "forking" the DCO is a horrible
> idea,

Has there ever been a wider review of the Linux DCO? If not, then it
is not surprising if it fits the needs of kernel development only
(which is very homogeneous, license wise), but not necessarily other
projects.

> and doing it by not getting legal review of such changes is an even
> worse idea.

> Would you want a medical doctor to write a legal document?  If not,
> why would you want a programmer to do so?

Are you saying that the DCO is so complicated that all devs will need
a lawyer, in order to understand what they are certifying? Then we are
doing something fundamentally wrong.

Ulrich

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