Re: BSD license vs. Evolution assigment (was Re: Copyright assignment)

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Alan Cox">

> On Sad, 2004-08-07 at 15:34, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > At no point above did I imply that someone ought to commit to Evolution
> > CVS without signing the copyright assignment.
> 
> You said
> 
> "That's fine, they may choose to not sign the copyright agreement. There
> is noting wrong with that."
> 
> But as I understand it that means they would refuse to accept the patch
> irrespective of the important issue (is it technically good). So it would
> conceivably put in place a policy that prevents free software developers
> from contributing technically good changes to Evolution.

Red Hat ship patches to Evolution. Debian ship patches to Evolution. I
assume most distributions ship patches to Evolution. There are many ways to
handle this. None of them have so far insisted that these patches be
maintained in GNOME CVS. For a start, none of them are significant enough to
require it.

- Jeff

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