]] Barry Warsaw > On Nov 29, 2012, at 03:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > >Plus, you have to sign a contributor's agreement with Canonical which leaves > >a bad taste in my mouth. That shouldn't be the case with true free software, > >should it? > > In an ideal world maybe it shouldn't, but in truth it is for both open source > and free software. As project leader of a GNU project, with copyrights owned > by the FSF, I am required to obtain copyright assignments from contributors, > which some folks feel are more onerous than contributor agreements. Open > source projects like Python require contributor agreements for core > developers, and this is not an uncommon requirement.
Are you equating the FSF and the PSF with a private, for-profit company here? That seems to be stretching it a bit. > We can argue about specific contribution legal documents and policies > (although hopefully, not here ;) but not about whether they are a reality in > today's FLOSS world. There's a significant difference whether your contractual counterpart is somebody who has the public good or profits in the pockets of its owners in mind. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
