On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > No change intended. This is what happens when you send a thirty second > follow-up to a policy formed over two weeks, and then step away to eat...
So, clarification now that I'm back at a keyboard... DCO is mandatory, and is simply a declaration that the committer has checked and the new code is distributed under the license chosen for the project (see original email for details, but generally GPL/BSD/etc). The Linux kernel is the main model for this. Since Gentoo is not always being assigned copyright we need to have a clear declaration that the code is available under a suitable free license so that we can further distribute it. FLA is optional, and is essentially a copyright assignment (or reasonable facsimile in certain jurisdictions designed by the FSFe). KDE is the main model for this. But, to whatever extent that anything I just wrote disagrees with the original email, just read the original email. The original email was carefully proofread by the Trustees, the rest is just discussion/reminders/etc. The final policy will be even more carefully reviewed. The whole bit about mandatory copyright assignment was dropped after the last round of discussion for all the reasons that have just been rehashed... Rich
