Anno domini 2021 Sun, 3 Jan 12:48:54 +0100 Slávek Banko via tde-devels scripsit: > Hi all, > > with the arrival of the new year, in addition to wishing you good health > and well-being, I open another topic for discussion - arrangement > between the project and contributors. > > As with many other open source projects, there were concerns about > patent trolls and other potential legal risks that led Tim to propose > the use of a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) in 2014. The questions > following the CLA's proposal were mainly technical and focused on how to > confirm compliance with these arrangements for smaller contributors. The > discussion that followed led to a consensus on the fact that it was > essential for the contributors to add a "Signed-off-by:" line to their > contributions. > > As a result, the "Signed-off-by" requirement is exactly the same as the > one for the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). DCO is significantly > simpler than a CLA and now used by a lot of open source projects. For > these reasons, in recent years we have already been using DCO rather > than CLA for all contributions made. > > We would like to officially declare the CLA obsolete and replace it by a > DCO. This would actually officially reconcile the declared state and the > way it is actually used. Therefore, I ask you if anyone is aware of any > obstacles, why this could not be done? > > See the CLA discussion thread: > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/7SXZSSQ4MHZIZJY4EBD33OLQO7DCE6YR/#7SXZSSQ4MHZIZJY4EBD33OLQO7DCE6YR > > See DCO: > https://developercertificate.org/ > > Cheers DCO is OK from my point of view. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
