Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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The Glibc and GCC developers made a bad decision last June.  The DCO
they are using is full of gaps, and they don't get it from all the
authors.  A copyright assignment is much better.

I'm working on better DCO which is intended to correct some of its
problems.  However, it will still be second best.  We will continue to
get copyright assignments, not DCOs.

In addition to the copyright assignment (or substitute), we ask for
employers' disclaimers.  They do a different job, which is
complementary to the job that an assignment does (and a DCO tries to
do).

Thus, using a DCO instead of an assignment does not make the process
much easier or faster, unless the project does it carelessly.

I ask lawyers how to keep the the copyleft strong, because that is
a priority for the free software movement.  I don't ask them whether
that should be our priority, because that's the starting point.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)