----- Original Message ---- > From: Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl> > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 2:22:03 AM > Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments & the Document Foundation > > Hi all, > > BRM wrote (29-10-10 00:41) > > > >> From: Thorsten Behrens<t...@documentfoundation.org> > >> > >> BRM wrote: > >>> The Linux Kernel guys don't require it; KDE E.v. does. Both methods have > >>> their pros and cons. > >> > >> Hi, just a very small correction here - KDE e.V. does not require > >> it, it is optional to sign their FLA (a trait shared among other > >> FLOSS projects, e.g. the Python Foundation acts similarly). > > > > Thank you for the correction. I thought they did from what I had read a >while > > back. > > Yet another method to accomplish the same goal. > > What would be the use of people giving the option to share a CA or not. Just >the fact that, in case for e.g. a licence update, you only have to contact x% >of the contributors?
It certainly reduces the burden. Otherwise you have to contact 100% of contributors, not all of which may be easy to find if at all. Ben -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
