Just send in a patch ...

Posted Oct 29, 2009 10:45 UTC (Thu) by addw (guest, #1771)
Parent article: Community contributions and copyright assignment

and alongside it include a note saying that the patch is copyright you and that you release it under the GPL. If/when canonical come back asking you to sign their agreement - just refuse and point out that your patch already has a perfectly good license. It is then up to them to accept the patch or not.

It would be stupid of them to refuse to accept it since much of what they are working with is already under the GPL.

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Just send in a patch ...

Posted Oct 29, 2009 23:45 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

It would be stupid of them to refuse to accept it since much of what they are working with is already under the GPL.

I believe the article says refuse to accept it is exactly what Canonical will do, stupid or not. And it mentions a few reasons that it might not be stupid. It would be a waste of time to send in a patch to someone who has made it clear he won't use code to which you hold the copyright.

And FSF has been rejecting code like that forever too.