From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 20:55:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAD4mYhAUPNpb1QYWAYiMdo6Y6VtyvO+KUN7dfmQUkEAkhz5RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGDaZ_q6hxU4UmfhwLJ8ai+HNhQrNiTG6diFkcUQYtUqxQB55A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> wrote:
> I refuse to sign anything.
>
> If the GPL works as intended, then anyone using my work would
> themselves be making a derived work of their own for which they
> themselves could enforce the GPL.
>
It is for this reason I never understood the point of contributor
agreements for open source projects. Even the FSF's justification, so
that they may pursue GPL violations without requiring you present,
seems to fall apart as various Linux kernel contributors have gone
after companies on their own for profit without the consent of Mr.
Torvalds, the other contributors, or the Linux Foundation.
Cheers,
R0b0t1
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 06/01/2018 12:24 AM, Jonas Stein 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?
>>
>> The best example is likely most license files themselves that are not
>> malleable.
>>
>> --
>> Kristian Fiskerstrand
>> OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
>> fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
>>
>
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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 [this message]
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 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
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