Matt Zagrabelny <mzagr...@d.umn.edu> writes: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
>> I, for one, have even more of a problem contributing to FSF projects >> that require copyright assignment than I would contributing to upstart. > Would you comment on why you have issues with the FSF contributor > agreement? I do most of my free software development as part of my job, and my employer is not going to sign this stuff. I tried before with the FSF copyright assignment and got nowhere. Actually, now that I think about it, the FSF copyright assignment may be easier if it still doesn't say anything about patents, since patents are a separate red flag. But in any event, neither of them are going to happen. Remember, it's not the job of an employer's lawyers to make it easy for me to contribute to random projects that are only ancillarily related to my job or are just things I fixed out of convenience while working on other stuff. It's the job of lawyers to protect the institution, and not signing anything that isn't necessary is an obvious and reasonable first cut at doing so. Why spend the expensive legal resources on analyzing an agreement that isn't providing much benefit? As you might be able to tell, I actually support that legal position. If my employer wanted to make substantial contributions that would really help both parties, something could probably be negotiated, but when we're just talking about random bug fixes, the risk isn't worth it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762eqkcf3....@windlord.stanford.edu
