GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

Posted Dec 20, 2012 9:58 UTC (Thu) by wingo (guest, #26929)
Parent article: GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

As the person who started the "project governance" discussion a year ago, I can say that this article covers the bases pretty well.

The one nitpick I have is a continued conflation between "FSF governance" and the GNU project. The FSF and GNU don't have much in common, structurally, besides the fact that Richard is at the head of both, and that many GNU people are in the FSF. The FSF has little effect on GNU.

More on this point: http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/13/gnu-gnome-and-the...

The assignment policy is an anachronism, but it is a GNU/Richard policy (for some projects) and not an FSF policy.

GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

Posted Dec 20, 2012 10:38 UTC (Thu) by dd9jn (✭ supporter ✭, #4459) [Link] (1 responses)

The missing resources at the FSF have a serious effect on GNU. Only yesterday I received a complaint from a potential contributor who is waiting since weeks on a reply (other than the RT ack) to his request for an assignment. Alas, this is a common pattern with the FSF.

GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

Posted Dec 20, 2012 23:47 UTC (Thu) by johnsu01 (subscriber, #34757) [Link]

If you want to send me any info about this at johns@fsf.org then I can track down what happened and remedy it. I'd appreciate it.

Fortunately, this kind of thing has become much, much less common. There has been dramatic improvement in the speed of the copyright assignment process over the last couple of years, and more improvements are on the way. For example, we are working more and more with scanned assignments when legally possible.