On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > When people are complaining about Canonical's contributor licensing > agreement, saying that something is appealing because it's a GNU > project is kind of amusing. I, for one, have even more of a problem > contributing to FSF projects that require copyright assignment than > I would contributing to upstart.
The major issue for me is that while the FSF may have problems, it is a non-profit organization; Canonical is not. In version 2.5 of the agreement[1] §8 and §12 are problematic too, as they impose an additional burden on contributors. Don Armstrong 1: http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/06/14/canonica_contributor_agreement.pdf I've no clue if this is the current one or not, since it doesn't seem to be publicly available. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- 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/20120228191509.gh22...@rzlab.ucr.edu
