On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:28 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:26 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Until the reftable code is actually merged into git, I work on the > > reftable library itself at github.com/google/reftable. I've asked our > > opensource team if we could switch off the CLA enforcement for this > > repo, to facilitate back & forth imports of fixes. > > I've asked our lawyers, but this is not currently possible, unfortunately. Maybe I'm not understanding something correctly. Git's license is GPLv2. When you add your Signed-off-by line you are saying you are authorized to provide this code to the Git project under its open source license. Therefore, I should be able to take your patches, and rework them in any way I want as long as I keep Git's license. I don't need your permission, you are supposedly giving it by adding your Signed-off-by line. Read: https://developercertificate.org/ If you are not authorized to provide these patches under an open source license, then you should not add your Signed-off-by line. And if these patches cannot be used by the Git project, nor can we work on them in a collaborative manner, then what's the point in providing them? Sounds to me Google has not made its mind about actually contributing these changes. Or am I missing something? Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
