On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On a personal note, if any copyright assignment was in place, I would > never have been able to become a Gentoo developer, and if it were to be > put into place, I do not think that I would be allowed to continue to be > one. I'm sure lots of other current developers are in this same > situation, so please keep that in mind when reviewing this process. This is a question for gregkh primarily, but I would also like to extend it to all other Gentoo developers.
1. Are you party to any *copyright assignment* (eg FSF copyright assignment)? 2. Are you party to any *contributor license agreements* (eg FLA, Google CLA, ...)? [2] 3. Are you party to any other *license assertions* (eg DCO)? [3] 4. Are you party to or aware of any other copyright aggregation efforts? [4] [2] Contributor License Agreements: =============================== Google CLA: http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html FSF Europe FLA: http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html Oracle Contributor Agreement: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html The historical Sun Contributor Agreement and MySQL Community Contribution Agreement Many more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement [3] License assertions: =================== http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches#l298 [4] Copyright aggregation: ====================== Canonical's Project Harmony is the only aggregation effort I'm aware of. http://harmonyagreements.org/overview.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Harmony_(FOSS_group) They provide an excellent guide to many of the nuances between copyright assignments and contributer agreements: http://harmonyagreements.org/guide.html -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
