Hi,
please note a this spawned from something Richard Alloway wrote:
> If I can get approval to do any of this on work's dime (which I think I can 
> do, since contributing to Open Source projects is part of my job), I should 
> be able to get a little of 5:
>
> 5) Time
As I read it this means Richard's employer will explicitly pay for 
contributions to BackupPC.

My concern is said employer may, perhaps in a distant future, possibly after 
being sold to some Evil Empire, decide they still "own" those patches and 
prevent us from redistributing anything which includes them.
This is the problem we should address (if it exists).

I do not want to open possibility for anyone to make BackupPC proprietary (I 
know what Rob depicts has happened in the past and will happen again), this 
should be explicitly forbidden in whatever solution we finally chose.

Initial question remains: "Should we be concerned"?
This might be sheer paranoia, but I'm to ignorant in the subject to discern it.
If someone has a positive answer please elaborate.

Regards
Mauro

Il 19/05/2016 09:04, Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting ha scritto:
> On 19/05/16 08:37, Stefan Peter wrote:
>
>> This is simply wrong: The Linux Kernel does _not_ require a CLA. But it
>> requires a Certificate of Origin, also known as Signed-off-by. See
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=HEAD
>> for details.
>>
>> Additionally, there are countries where you can not legally transfer
>> your copyright to someone else unless you have been hired to do the work
>> in question. This would mean that Backuppc would either have to hire the
>> contributors or reject their contributions in order to make sure the CLA
>> is effective.
>
> I agree, thanks Stefan!
>
> I think this is what we should require.
>


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