Comment 7 for bug 356323
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: [Bug 356323] Re: Copyright assignment requirements should be clear when submitting patches | #7 |
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2009/9/16 Ted Gould <email address hidden>:
> I don't disagree, and I guess my feeling here is that any effort towards
> making people aware sooner is worthwhile -- certainly it won't help
> everyone at all times. But, it does work towards less negative
> surprise.
>
> Perhaps it should just be part of the project's license. "We're GPLv3
> with Copyright assignment to the FSF" Then the goal would be to place
> the project's license in more useful places. Because, I could be
> Richard Stallman and not want to write patches for BSD licensed projects
> as well :)
I think this is a good idea; perhaps this bug should be reoriented to
just ask for that, because we seem to agree that showing it at the mp
submission point is not super useful.
We could just say as a best practice that it should go into the
freeform project description, but perhaps it's useful to have it as
structured data.
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Martin <http://