[PATCH] Developer policy amendment re. non-disclosure

[Tobias Grosser]

On 10/20/2013 06:06 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> This of course, has it's own set of issues for both the person and the
> project.
>
> In any case, the practical problems Tobias presents are real problems.  The
> normal way they are taken care of is not necessarily through mailing list
> policy but through contributor agreements of various sorts that explicitly
> define contributions as "stuff sent on mailing lists, unless marked 'not a
> contribution'", and then license them.
> Then there is no ambiguity, and no need to set policy.
>
> In the absence of this, it's a bit hard to strike a balance.
> As I said, i am not personally opposed to banning/ignoring disclaimer'd
> mails.
>
> If this is a real concern for a lot of people, it almost sounds like it may
> be better to discuss it in person at some point at the upcoming developer
> meeting, and come to some conclusion there.
>
> I say this mainly because not everyone is going to be comfortable
> expressing the various issues on a public mailing list :)

Sounds very reasonable. It seems there is one just about to come up. 
Maybe we can get together at some point and discuss it. I am not looking 
for a sophisticated solution, but mainly for some clarifications.

Thanks a lot,

Cheers,
Tobias