Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote: > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2019-11-04 12:56]: >> Reasons fewer men contribute to GNU: >> - Have to reveal identity. > > That is not quite so. In America country it is possible to use pen names.
Why is it specific to ‘America country’ (whatever it is)? I thought, contributing to GNU does not require it, unless the subproject, you are sending patches to, have a strict copyright assignment policy, in which case FSF clerks indeed ask you to reveal you identity to them (and only to them, not publicly). Am I wrong? >> - Have to assign copyright (a submissive act). > > That is not submissive act but legal act and cooperation. It is necessary for > cases of legal enforcement where evidences have to be shown in courts of law. What ‘it’? The current all-or-nothing policy, where anyone who is going to contribute more than 15 lines or so have to undergo a paperwork, proved to be unnecessary overkill by the enforcement story of the most enforced free program so far — Linux®. The other side of coin is that FSF does not encourage authors of GNU packages, that have not adopted this strict copyright assignment policy, to assign their copyright. In other words, GNU software maintainers have to choose between loosing certain number of contributors or totally loosing legal enforceability — no middle option.
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