[Freedombox-discuss] Keep or Remove the "Anonymous Contribution" Page?

[simo]

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 11:35 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Nick M. Daly (2012-11-29 06:16:25)
> > Jack Wilborn writes:
> > 
> > > IMHO, I say that if they want to keep copyright to their code, then 
> > > we probably don't want it in the FB.  My understanding is that we 
> > > wanted a copyright free box, has this changed or have I 
> > > misunderstood?
> > 
> > I think you missed something big there.  As far as I know [0], that's 
> > not a goal at all.  Nobody's even asked me for a contributor 
> > agreement, much less copyright assignment: we'll cross that bridge 
> > when we come to it, I suppose.
> 
> If "we" are Debian, then we need someone physical and identifiable in 
> charge of each piece of code, but those can act as proxy for others 
> keeping anonymous or pseudonymous. Important for Debian is that all code 
> is freely _licensed_.
> 
> If "we" are the FreedomBox Foundation, then it will very much surprise 
> me if they[0] have different agenda than use Debian for all software 
> parts of the project.

Hi Jonas are you saying people that prefer to use other distributions
would not be welcome to contribute (and port?) FBX to a different
distribution ?

Simo.

[0] I am not Debian

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Simo Sorce
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Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>