From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:05:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87pmf3alfv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tu4ghfk7.fsf@inria.fr> <48012d32-985c-c09d-eb30-755e6e96fff2@telenet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1443"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Andy Wingo To: Maxime Devos Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 16:38:27 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogoUc-0000CC-Iu for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:38:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41948 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogoUb-0006J5-BR for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogm6P-0000Ov-Pv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogm6N-0007RJ-H5; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:05:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To: From; bh=rVa0XpfP0aq5xMamEIvIlJlUz+kBgSIZWCDyWekmbRo=; b=rEOve1QHl5NH4QlfvTW4 9bUFDp5176r0sNkzv4WWmeZ8WjBAvfgt/3nt/lD7hFt1ZEKOHL9sIZzUeUKCZRuCbW3duiiy6HuGc tfFNNdQVJbLdE4qP6M+8L5uvlVMhSjN85Vsk4ztyFVdb2UDrhNQzVMUvLSn7JcWvtjrPlswLvwVde eoHEqmqY2LVCOKj/nZ9Ni+sai3PNWD/dLLZpljHCTDvxVVlu362yPSQuKyYB+ENqS54Fe0xuPak2Z OU/8BPidwJum9U4mkS/NQ1XQ/CaXni1WJGnb+/GNhooA87OFV8COo6lUjUHPhfYqO/yiwTP2wdq2j EHeSO+JWutyHCA==; Original-Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=49418 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogm6H-0003e2-TG; Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:05:11 -0400 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Sextidi 16 =?utf-8?Q?Vend=C3=A9miaire?= an 231 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution=2C?= jour de la Belle de nuit X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <48012d32-985c-c09d-eb30-755e6e96fff2@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:58:10 +0200") X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:21390 Archived-At: Hi Maxime, Maxime Devos skribis: > On 06-10-2022 22:18, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Hello Guilers! >> [...] >> New contributors are encouraged to assign copyright to the FSF by >> emailing them one of the forms at >> , >> especially if they intend to contribute significantly going forward. >> New contributors may instead choose to not assign copyright to the >> FSF. > > What about the following third situation: the contributor doesn't mind > assigning Guile-related copyright to the FSF, but the assignment > process can take or is taking a long time or there are some > disagreements with the assignment contract to resolve (which might not > even be possible in the end), so > > (1) first the contributor sends the patches without copyright > assignment > (2) then they are applied (after review, revisions, etc.) > (3) once/if the assignment completes, the copyright headers in Guile > are adjusted appropriately. > > -- this avoids the time delay, while at the same time hopefully > eventually doing the assignment. > > Would such a situation be accepted? (It doesn't quite fit the two > mentioned options.) This is getting complicated. :-) A contributor could choose to not assign copyright at first for whatever reason, and later change their mind and assign copyright for all past changes. In that case, all the contributed code would now be FSF-copyrighted, and we=E2=80=99d remove the corresponding copyright lines. Obviously we can only do that for *all* past changes and when there=E2=80= =99s a single copyright holder, otherwise it becomes hard to keep track of things. I encourage people to choose upfront though to reduce the burden on committers. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. PS: We can discuss your own situation off-list if you want.