Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 16:35:26) > Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > > > Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 13:49:09) > >> Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > >> > >> > I have learned that not all GNU projects require this. For example, > >> > GnuPG uses DCO [0], and Guix doesn't even seem to require that. > >> > > >> > Maybe we can change this policy for Hurd, GNU Mach, and MIG too? > >> > >> I general, we “cannot” (i.e., are invited not to) change GNU packages > >> from requiring-assignment to no-assignment policy (although I guess > >> GnuPG did exactly that…). > > > > So one can do that. > > Everything can be done, but ultimately it’s a matter of reaching > consensus. > > > I see it as an barrier for contributing. > > Right, but whether it’s a good idea depends on a number of other > factors. For Guix, copyright assignment would have been a hindrance > IMO, but what’s at stake is different than for libc or GCC, for > instance.
I'm not talking about glibc or gcc of course. > >> Hopefully paperwork is fast enough these days anyway. > > > > I don't know how it is nowadays (maybe someone can enlighten us?), but > > when I did that like three years ago the process took weeks and > > required quite a bit of nagging. > > Use of PDFs has helped a bit: > > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html > > as well as digital signatures in some cases: > > > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-gpg-signed-assignments-from-the-u-s > > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-gpg-signatures-for-copyright-assignments-from-italy I did use the PDFs, which I printed, signed, scanned, and emailed. And then it took weeks of nagging. I don't see how digital signatures could have helped. Justus
