Re: [copyleft-next] LibreOffice Follow Up
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:59:12PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
Putting the DCO / OSI talk onto copyleft-next public lists as that
is
where we should be talking about DCO evolution. Getting the DCO
formalized through the OSI might be appealing to some so throwing it
out there as Alison brought this up. Not sure if we need any
additional resources at this point, most of the legwork to get it as a
standalone document is thankfully already done by W. King but what we
do need though is just more visibility, and perhaps address together
with the community an FAQ. I believe its best we evolve it openly
through copyleft-next and as it stands I believe we last left with the
conclusion Fontana would be volunteered to oversee final edits.
Curious if anyone has other opinions?
Simon, what if we don't need resources other than to declare it as OSI
sane or something? Perhaps we could just start off with the existing
standalone DCO text that W. King wrote, see if Fontana can help review
when the stars align and later see if the board can bless and publish
it? If we need an FAQ I can likely hack that up together based on the
slides. If this path is desirable I guess I need to join OSI ?
Hadn't considered it before, but I see some great pragmatic value to
getting OSI endorsement of the DCO, or something DCO-like -- if it's
*just* the DCO.
But if the price to pay for that is OSI getting in the business of
endorsing all sorts of contributor agreements (it's hard to see why
any of the common ones would be rejected flat out unless very strict
criteria were adopted by the OSI), then I don't think it is
worthwhile. That just re-legitimizes the kinds of asymmetrical
contributor agreements the DCO has come to have the effect of
displacing.
Also OSI approval of the existing DCO probably would have the effect
of freezing (or at least slowing down) its further evolution. Granted,
so far there hasn't been much effort to further evolve the DCO (and
there may be some who believe it is perfect) so perhaps that doesn't
matter. But that was something I was thinking of getting involved in
when I accepted Luis's volunteering of me to maintain the DCO (though
I have not acted on this yet, I have been thinking about it as
recently as yesterday :).
- RF