On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:45:20 -0400 David Prévot wrote: > Le 09/01/2012 17:39, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > Instead of continuing our discussion based on impressions, we just > issued a quick poll [P.-S.]: it confirms that not everyone will agree > with a copyright reassignment, but almost all contributors will likely > give us a blanket permission to relicense their contributions under any > DFSG-free license. [...] > Please note that Andrei found it “a bit harsh” [1] (well, it was about > copyright reassignment, since we will only ask for a relicensing > permission, maybe his remark won't stand) if we remove commit access to > people who won't give their agreement. Hopefully, none of us will really > disagree, and we'll only temporarily remove commit access to temporarily > unavailable contributors.
As it should already be clear from my previous comments, I think that requiring blanket re-licensing permission from contributors as a prerequisite for accepting contributions to an activity of the Debian Project would be a *very bad* precedent. I think that such a strategy, if adopted, would alienate a number of existing or future potential contributors. At the very least, me. I haven't yet contributed anything to the Debian official web site, but I think that anyone trying to persuade me to help will have a very hard time, if, in order to contribute, I would be forced to allow the Debian Project to re-license my work at will, under any terms it considers to be DFSG-free. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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