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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.51 X-Spam-Score: -5.51 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 2AF4B64085 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-TUID: WQNx1Aer4i61 On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 3:32 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2024-01-03, Wojtek Kosior via wrote: >> Before getting back to the discussion, please let me ask 1 question. >> Assume I submit a patch series that adds some useful and needed code = and >> includes a copyright notice with a promise, like this >> >> ;;; Copyright =C2=A9 2023 Wojtek Kosior >> ;;; Wojtek Kosior promises not to sue for violations of this file's l= icense. >> >> Will this weirdness be considered minor enough to tolerate? I made >> sure the promise line takes below 78 chars. > > I am not at all a lawyer, but this seems like an entirely different > license, and at the very least a pragmatic headache. > In the spirit of sticking to the concrete issue, there is precedent for = GNU software accepting changes that the contributor has placed in the pu= blic domain: see in particular . In fact, since Guix leaves copyright ownersh= ip with individual contributors, it seems like there's no way to stop co= ntributors from also licensing their contributions under additional lice= nses. I think it could make sense to include in the commit message something l= ike, "I, Alyssa P. Hacker, dedicate my contribution in this commit to th= e public domain under CC0-1.0.". That would make it clear exactly what c= hanges are covered. Philip