[Freedombox-discuss] Keep or Remove the "Anonymous Contribution" Page?
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 11:35 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Nick M. Daly (2012-11-29 06:16:25)
> > Jack Wilborn writes:
> >
> > > IMHO, I say that if they want to keep copyright to their code, then
> > > we probably don't want it in the FB. My understanding is that we
> > > wanted a copyright free box, has this changed or have I
> > > misunderstood?
> >
> > I think you missed something big there. As far as I know [0], that's
> > not a goal at all. Nobody's even asked me for a contributor
> > agreement, much less copyright assignment: we'll cross that bridge
> > when we come to it, I suppose.
>
> If "we" are Debian, then we need someone physical and identifiable in
> charge of each piece of code, but those can act as proxy for others
> keeping anonymous or pseudonymous. Important for Debian is that all code
> is freely _licensed_.
>
> If "we" are the FreedomBox Foundation, then it will very much surprise
> me if they[0] have different agenda than use Debian for all software
> parts of the project.
Hi Jonas are you saying people that prefer to use other distributions
would not be welcome to contribute (and port?) FBX to a different
distribution ?
Simo.
[0] I am not Debian
--
Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>
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