Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright forms and new devs

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 01 July 2004 15:40, Corey Shields wrote:
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:37 am, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > Regardless of whether or not it's enforceable, I think enough devs
> > have expressed concern about the things it purports to enforce.
> >
> > IMO, we should heed those concerns, stop requiring new devs to sign
> > the doc and figure out a way to get a better doc in place.
>
> There is really no reason to continue signing copyright over to Gentoo
> Technologies, so until this all changes to the new Foundation, I have
> to agree with putting these on hold, with the agreement that they will
> be signing one later.

Appart from the fact that enough people (including trustees (myself 
included)) have not actually signed the statement, the statement is 
indeed broken so I agree on postponing it. Also we might not need the 
whole copyright. The only thing we want to be able to do is to fight 
battles in court without having to make many many party in the battle.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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