On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:23:39AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Keith Packard writes ("Re: Bug#727708: init system discussion status"): > > I feel that having the Debian community endorse software where a CLA is > > involved will tacitly encourage developers to enter into those > > agreements so that their work can be published as widely as possible. > I can see the force of this point. > Could we address this by adding something explicit to the TC > resolution ? > N. We are firmly opposed to Canonical's upstart Contributor Licence > Agreement. > As with any other program in Debian whose upstream has > controversial copyright practices, the Debian project will > continue accept and deploy useful patches whose contributors > decline to enter into unfair copyright agreements. > We recommend that Debian contributors do not sign the CLA, even > when contributing changes which might be widely useful. I would prefer to see more neutral wording, something to the effect of: The Technical Committee does not endorse the use of a CLA by the upstart project, which causes barriers to contributions from the wider Free Software community, and this decision is not a recommendation that Debian contributors sign the CLA. I.e., rather than a positive recommendation to contributors about what licensing agreements they should choose to engage in (which I don't think it's the TC's place to do), a softer call-out to make it clear that this is not an endorsement of CLAs. But perhaps this doesn't satisfy Keith's concern. (Perhaps neither wording does.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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