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@trinitydesk…
See DCO:
https://developercertificate.org/
Cheers
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Slávek
