From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09549138334 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE7CBE089B; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pf0-f194.google.com (mail-pf0-f194.google.com [209.85.192.194]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B74DE088C for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pf0-f194.google.com with SMTP id z24-v6so6567436pfe.7 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:56:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=R9GXlNQgaXypfQWIL57pVv2EXuSbrxJVL6V/+sN0KaM=; b=oT2nv9YoJEy7BZaObxASHH2Fi5k6L5Zd0DFI33vfTyUrb5xBpAAm4c11fTxZWGCRdi IMjirbYXMmMB3YzNQdzSkmQDV/gwCKC3KBtnStZ3YBhJUxAP9Yt7Gg+lV/s4ZkV5vQHf kS3aFybJ/Seycx48DfmnEK/XH9RJGrOu8+n42BLam0MmPE/W2CGRI7Nrc81iceStKVla YA4Kh0tG+6NGz4O3DBhYrNr0wcyPFcoZX5kZb1dBZPajw7ubgjPcFZrs8G7ABAsz/Dga hu7TLberEwtp5Ge5Gypd52BiV/xHODv5zXWSvDQJ8mEgk2EXK2R5TfycAWbv2+XWUQUl AW9g== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E1mO7dgh0JTKBMjalR1jOqq+9zMh+zQ0vM73X21iYnPgAQgf1OC Q+eV4S2fm6GKno3Mhbk/NSq4GvZSsr/dpBCTDVrSdA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKK8XJEuSZHzBI1hj6DPrAs8PjUdPHuzEv3J6VaJ+/rws16ITiOnkrBY+KKwgFUe6qcDjZxAbSQH03ZwmPN7TWk= X-Received: by 2002:a65:51c9:: with SMTP id i9-v6mr11133779pgq.202.1529938598048; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <23310.46809.293787.611345@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <23317.12829.91552.529904@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20180625013334.GA28404@kroah.com> <23344.37042.753481.563752@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20180625070525.GA6151@kroah.com> <23344.40875.105369.227774@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20180625110540.GB3058@kroah.com> <23344.65054.620110.958503@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <0a9228f1-338e-06a3-f3f4-6b27eea71408@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <0a9228f1-338e-06a3-f3f4-6b27eea71408@iee.org> From: Rich Freeman Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:56:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? To: gentoo-project Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: b52dc259-681b-4a1e-b71a-f74819206e94 X-Archives-Hash: 007876b1fb702316cb6d2eda9df4350c On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM M. J. Everitt 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