[SeasonOfDocs] TheGoodDocsProject: Contributor Agreements

[Jo Cook]

Personally I'm fine with the light tough DCO but happy to go with whatever
works for people contributing from large companies.

All the best

Jo

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 1:15 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It has been ~ 10 years since I last looked into open source contributor
> agreements, so I've been doing some research. I feel this is an
> important consideration for a project which is hopefully to be as
> central as ours will become.
>
> It is about having contributors confirm they are allowed to give to our
> project and to agree we can distribute contributions under our open
> licenses.
> We have a few options: do nothing, old heavy weight Contributor License
> Agreement (CLA), or lightweight Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)
> Pros and cons are explained in Producing Open Source Software:
>
> https://producingoss.com/en/contributor-agreements.html#developer-certificate-of-origin
> I propose we adopt the light DCO: https://developercertificate.org/
>
> I'd like to hear if anyone has any opinions or experience in this area
> (especially from those of you in big companies which have legal
> departments which may be opinionated.)
>
> After we've discussed for a few days (weeks if being debated), I'll put
> together a motion to vote on.
>
> Cheers,
>
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