On Tue, 2021-06-15 at 22:08 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Yes the fact that one needs to repeat this process as one changes > employers is very awkward.
This is exactly what I was worried about with my previous message: people saying "it's awkward to get my employer to assign copyright so I'd rather use a DCO" when they are not legally allowed to do that. A DCO is not a magic bullet. If your employer has copyright to the changes you made then the DCO is useless to you because the ownership is not yours to certify; you'll STILL have to get your employer to agree to it. If you have the copyright yourself then you don't need your employer to sign anything in the first place! Allowing contributors to follow a simpler process doesn't make the situation less complicated, it just makes it easier to ignore. But ignoring it doesn't make it go away. The assignment is awkward, and it is extra effort, but that effort is not useless or wasted. IMO it's important for the project that people pay attention to this and handle it BEFORE their code is accepted.
