From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: lopezibanez@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, iant@google.com
Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1O6qWR-0003zZ-Ix@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11004262009.AA10451@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> (kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu)
> And how are potential contributors supposed to know this?
They're really not. The fundamental problem here is that this area of
the law is not only very complicated, but is really all guesswork
since there are few, if any, relevant cases. Moreover, this is an
area of the law where details matter, often quite a bit.
My suggestion for this process is develop an online form where a
person specifies various things about their contribution including
what program it's for an how long it is. It should ask whether the
person anticipates submitting more changes. Then it needs to ask what
the person's employment status is and in which country. It should ask
about terms relating to IPR in any employment agreements. And so on.
Then it should be able to come up with a set of choices that would
cover this person's unique situation.
That is more or less what a potentional contributor gets via email
when submitting a patch. I don't see how a web form would make things
different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 231+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-24 12:35 Ross Ridge
2010-04-24 12:56 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-24 13:29 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 14:23 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 19:48 ` Florian Weimer
2010-04-24 20:23 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 15:44 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-04-25 15:54 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-25 16:00 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-25 16:48 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 16:00 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-25 16:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-26 16:50 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-04-26 16:54 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-26 17:03 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-04-26 19:53 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-26 20:03 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-26 20:04 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 19:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2010-04-27 19:56 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-27 21:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-27 21:20 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-27 21:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-27 21:40 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 22:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-27 22:33 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-27 22:53 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-29 8:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-26 17:04 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-26 17:15 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-26 18:00 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-04-25 16:35 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 14:21 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 14:31 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-04-24 14:34 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 14:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-24 14:40 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 14:45 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 19:36 ` Leif Ekblad
2010-04-24 19:47 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-04-25 11:07 ` Leif Ekblad
2010-04-25 11:25 ` Ralf Wildenhues
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-26 16:09 Ross Ridge
2010-04-26 9:46 Ross Ridge
2010-04-26 12:32 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 15:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-26 15:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-24 12:51 Matthew J Fletcher
2010-04-23 18:56 Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 19:04 ` Paolo Carlini
2010-04-23 19:24 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-23 19:58 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 20:43 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 21:49 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 22:18 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-23 23:20 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-25 15:34 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-04-25 16:34 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 5:06 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-04-26 5:16 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 11:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-27 2:03 ` Russ Allbery
2010-04-27 2:58 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 14:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-23 19:34 ` Дмитрий Дьяченко
2010-04-23 19:45 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 19:53 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-04-24 16:00 ` Дмитрий Дьяченко
2010-04-24 16:02 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 16:45 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-04-24 18:07 ` Laurent GUERBY
2010-04-23 19:40 ` David Daney
2010-04-25 19:26 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-23 19:48 ` Marc Glisse
2010-04-23 20:06 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 21:36 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-23 21:45 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 0:05 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-24 0:37 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-04-24 0:47 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-24 0:48 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-24 1:37 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 20:26 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-25 21:46 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 22:16 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-25 22:48 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 0:28 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-26 0:30 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 0:37 ` Jack Howarth
2010-04-26 1:45 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 2:06 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-26 2:32 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-26 2:55 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-26 3:02 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 3:08 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-26 3:23 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-26 3:25 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 3:25 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-26 9:32 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-26 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-27 4:02 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-27 7:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-26 12:20 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 12:36 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-26 15:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-27 3:21 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-27 3:55 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 3:32 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 4:02 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-26 4:13 ` Russ Allbery
2010-04-26 4:32 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 4:36 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-26 4:22 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 9:23 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-24 1:39 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-23 22:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-25 19:37 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-25 21:35 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 4:32 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-26 4:54 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 9:41 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-26 17:14 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-04-26 17:19 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-26 15:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-23 22:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-23 22:53 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 0:04 ` Joe Buck
2010-04-24 0:21 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-24 1:00 ` Joe Buck
2010-04-24 0:08 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-24 0:35 ` Joe Buck
2010-04-24 0:41 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-04-24 1:32 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-24 1:39 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 2:13 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-24 5:14 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-24 6:02 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 1:35 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 19:54 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-25 21:42 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 10:26 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 10:39 ` Eric Botcazou
2010-04-24 13:02 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 4:20 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-25 8:40 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-25 10:56 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-25 14:59 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-25 15:04 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-25 15:20 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-25 15:21 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-25 21:37 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-25 16:30 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 16:54 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-25 17:04 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-25 17:09 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 17:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-25 17:05 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 17:08 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-26 9:07 ` Andrew Haley
2010-04-25 19:19 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-25 21:24 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 5:14 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-26 7:17 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 11:59 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-26 15:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-04-26 16:59 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-26 17:26 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-04-26 18:04 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 2:16 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-27 3:02 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 20:43 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-27 5:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-04-27 12:27 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-26 19:28 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-26 20:53 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-26 21:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-26 21:42 ` Chris Lattner
2010-04-26 22:18 ` Toon Moene
2010-04-27 2:56 ` Mark Mielke
2010-04-27 3:04 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-27 4:54 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-25 17:16 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-25 17:35 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 17:58 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-25 21:17 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 16:26 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 18:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-25 12:43 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-23 20:03 ` HyperQuantum
2010-04-23 20:14 ` HyperQuantum
2010-04-23 20:19 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 20:24 ` Paweł Sikora
2010-04-23 20:42 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 20:51 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 21:05 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 22:01 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 9:19 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-04-24 10:51 ` Paweł Sikora
2010-04-24 11:10 ` Andi Hellmund
2010-04-24 12:12 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-04-24 13:20 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-24 13:53 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 14:14 ` Toon Moene
2010-04-24 2:09 ` Tim Prince
2010-04-24 5:08 ` Dave Korn
2010-04-23 20:32 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-23 20:22 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 20:59 ` Florian Weimer
2010-04-23 22:06 ` Russ Allbery
2010-04-24 8:53 ` Michael Veksler
2010-04-24 19:43 ` Thomas Neumann
2010-04-24 20:03 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-04-24 20:28 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 20:37 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-24 20:37 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 20:43 ` Richard Guenther
2010-04-24 20:39 ` Richard Guenther
2010-04-24 20:45 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 21:40 ` Andi Hellmund
2010-04-24 22:19 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-04-25 12:54 ` Eric Botcazou
2010-04-25 13:01 ` Richard Kenner
2010-04-25 13:10 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-25 14:55 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2010-04-25 17:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-25 20:41 ` Richard Guenther
2010-04-24 20:46 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-05-04 7:13 ` Theodore Papadopoulo
2010-05-04 20:51 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-04-24 21:03 ` Martin Guy
2010-04-24 21:27 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
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