From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Copyright header for localedata files contributed under DCO
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 10:03:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36a857fb-420c-8aa0-4aa5-299dc898fe34@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtor38jn.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
On 9/5/21 1:17 AM, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger:
>
>> i'm saying the files should disclaim all copyright. the point is to convey
>> that these are data files where copyright shouldn't be relevant.
>
> That's a very U.S.-centric perspective. Many countries do not allow
> authors to disclaim copyright (at best such a declaration would
> interpreted as something like CC0). And many countries also offer some
> kind of protection to organized collections of facts.
>
> And I don't want to create a third type of contributions.
I agree with Florian.
We should not ask for contributors to disclaim copyright.
There should be no additional process steps for accepting
contributions to locales under DCO.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 10:37 Florian Weimer
2021-09-04 1:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-09-03 20:55 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-05 3:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-09-05 5:17 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-06 14:03 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2021-09-06 21:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-09-06 14:04 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-12-16 18:51 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
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