* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [140120 12:27]: > 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.
Though I personally agree with all those sentences I think for an official tech ctte resolution I prefer to not have the last sentence there (or move the "not" in front of "recommend", because that's not as active as that). Perhaps something as: "We do not endorse the use of licenses such as CLA, even if the software as distributed by Debian is Free Software and can be distributed and modified as usual." (or so). Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140120183015.gr16...@mails.so.argh.org