On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I personally tend to favor a mandatory DCO (we absolutely need to know >> the copyright status of our code), and a voluntary FLA (which I tend >> to prefer to outright assignment as I think it lines up well with our >> always-free social contract). > > Do you have any ideas about how that might work for previous > contributions? Plenty of developers have come and gone (and died!) > since gentoo began accepting commits. >
Existing copyright headers would be grandfathered as-is unless somebody comes forward with a specific concern. Over time the tree just improves. That is my suggestion at least, it is certainly no worse than we are today, and a decade from now the really old stuff will be gone. -- Rich
