On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:12:43PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > 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...
Ok, good, that's why I didn't object to the first email, only to this one which seemed to say something else, so I assumed it was I who misread the first version. Nevermind then, sorry for the noise :) greg k-h
