On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Frederic Bonnard wrote: > I've got more details about the agreements : > "libvecpf was created with the intention of being integrated later to glibc. > glibc islicensed under LGPL and, as a GNU/FSF project, requires copyright > assignment: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html > Thus, libvecpf is also licensed as LGPL and requires a copyright > assignment. > If we remove the copyright assignment and accept contributions from other > people, we won't be able to contribute this code back to the glibc > community."
Personally, I trust the FSF, as a non-profit public interest charity, to be a good copyright steward for Free Software code, so I think that this situation is acceptable, as long as they actually follow through with the contribution to glibc. That said, a better option for this sort of situation would be for contributors to assign to the FSF now rather than later. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise