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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:44 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> This is interesting, since you had previously signed the copyright
> assignment form to Gentoo Technologies, Inc. (To be precise, you PGP
> signed it and sent it to recruiters@gentoo.org on 2004-03-08.)
>

Given that the intent is for the FLA/CLA/whateverLA to be completely
optional, I don't think it makes sense to challenge people if they say
they don't intend to sign it.  Contributors are welcome to sign it, or
not, and while I think we should explain why it would be a nice thing
if they could, if they can't or won't that is just fine too and that
is all there is to it.

I'll let Greg speak for himself (if he wishes to), but in a past
thread on this topic he commented that some may not be able to sign
due to employment obligations.  This was one of the reasons we decided
to go towards making it optional (back when this was first being
discussed).

While I also ended up having a few disagreements with him in that
thread I will acknowledge that Greg is considered a bit of an expert
in this space (not that he needs endorsement from me).  As we
discussed in IRC I support the changes that were made in this case,
however.

-- 
Rich