Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment (was Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems)
On Dec 1, 2012, at 0:45, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:14:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>> Are you equating the FSF and the PSF with a private, for-profit company
>> here? That seems to be stretching it a bit.
>
> Not really, IMO.
>
> Personally, I'm not comfortable signing off my copyright to the FSF, for
> the very same reason I'm not comfortable signing off copyright to
> Canonical: while both are led by a person whom so far hasn't show much
> reason for me to distrust them, it is also true that both leaders have
> an agenda that I don't completely trust or agree with.
>
Just any FYI, Canonical no longer requires copyright assignment in their CLA. You are still giving Canonical an unlimited perpetual license on the code, but you retain your own copyrights.
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