From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:56:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_kK0duzQtrbeCs3nMLw2EvGA_D-5HY90p1qZzLPDFCaxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a9228f1-338e-06a3-f3f4-6b27eea71408@iee.org>
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:
>
> By contrast, Gentoo is likely to have been cobbled
> together by a consensus of unqualified persons, and is quite unlikely to
> be defended in court, -should- it come to that (see recent legal case of
> McHardy et al).
>
If Gentoo used the Linux DCO, and Gentoo was sued in court, and the
Linux Foundation was not named in the suit, and the case hinged on the
DCO, I'm pretty skeptical that Gentoo would suddenly be flooded with
free legal aid from the Linux Foundation or similar organizations,
beyond what they'd receive if they had written their own DCO.
As far as I'm aware no DCO has much legal precedent backing it up
specifically, so while this could change in the future, it isn't much
of a factor at the present either.
Nothing wrong with having it legally reviewed, and I've yet to see
anybody oppose this being done. Everybody just seems to think that it
ought to be somebody else's job to do so. :)
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 14:56 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
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 [this message]
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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