On Oct 31, 2013, at 07:45 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >On a different subject, which I don't think has been raised so far --- >has the Debian maintinares for the upstart package made any comments >about bug fixes or code contributions from Debian Developers who are >personally opposed to being forced to sign copyright assignment >agreements, or for whom their employers forbid them from signing >copyright assignment aggrements (both of which apply to me). Actually, contributing to Upstart does not require copyright assignment (as for example, would contributing to an FSF-owned GNU project). Instead, it requires a Contributor License Agreement be signed: http://www.canonical.com/contributors The upstart wiki is using inaccurate terminology in the text that gets you here, and it should be corrected. The difference of course is that with the CLA, you continue "to own the copyright in the contribution, with full rights to re-use, re-distribute, and continue modifying the contributed code", but it allows Canonical to use your contribution in certain ways. Read the above link and the linked FAQ for details. Cheers, -Barry
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