Re: Coppyright assignment

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 16:35:26)
> Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis:
> 
> > Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 13:49:09)
> >> Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis:
> >> 
> >> > I have learned that not all GNU projects require this.  For example,
> >> > GnuPG uses DCO [0], and Guix doesn't even seem to require that.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe we can change this policy for Hurd, GNU Mach, and MIG too?
> >> 
> >> I general, we “cannot” (i.e., are invited not to) change GNU packages
> >> from requiring-assignment to no-assignment policy (although I guess
> >> GnuPG did exactly that…).
> >
> > So one can do that.
> 
> Everything can be done, but ultimately it’s a matter of reaching
> consensus.
> 
> > I see it as an barrier for contributing.
> 
> Right, but whether it’s a good idea depends on a number of other
> factors.  For Guix, copyright assignment would have been a hindrance
> IMO, but what’s at stake is different than for libc or GCC, for
> instance.

I'm not talking about glibc or gcc of course.

> >> Hopefully paperwork is fast enough these days anyway.
> >
> > I don't know how it is nowadays (maybe someone can enlighten us?), but
> > when I did that like three years ago the process took weeks and
> > required quite a bit of nagging.
> 
> Use of PDFs has helped a bit:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html
> 
> as well as digital signatures in some cases:
> 
>   
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-gpg-signed-assignments-from-the-u-s
>   
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-gpg-signatures-for-copyright-assignments-from-italy

I did use the PDFs, which I printed, signed, scanned, and emailed.
And then it took weeks of nagging.  I don't see how digital signatures
could have helped.

Justus