From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH][rfc][doc] extending the contribution guidelines Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:57:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20160723135757.GA6873@solar> References: <87lh0uamuo.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQxRS-0004kd-TH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:58:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQxRN-0002Tc-0e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:58:09 -0400 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:33512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQxRM-0002TS-Jf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:58:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lh0uamuo.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:05:03PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > A question on copyright assignment: We have the Guix Europe > association. Could we not use it for copyright assignments in > file headers like this, either in addition to the already > existing ones or use it exclusively? > ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 the Guix Europe association > Why would it be a bad idea, why would it be a good idea? this would be a very bad idea - we are not the FSF, but just a bunch of Guix people, without particular legal and administrative resources. One could imagine assigning copyright to the FSF, but copyright assignments are a rather big barrier for contributing. Things seem to work quite well without adding more administration... Andreas