Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
by aidenn0 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:38PM
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Only one datapoint, but I have refrained from contributing to GNU partly[1] because of the copyright assignment requirement, while having committed to many other open-source projects I use.
1: TBH it's hard to tease apart the cultural aspects from the legal. Most GNU projects were roughly "We'll post a tarball once in a while and not have public CVS" when I first started getting involved in OSS; projects with public CVS it was a lot easier to tell if someone was already was working on something, particularly for people as shy as I was back then; I got the impression that the "proper" thing to do would be to introduce yourself on the mailing list, propose the idea, &c. and then start working on a patch.
My particular combination of low-confidence and misanthropy steered me away from such projects.
1: TBH it's hard to tease apart the cultural aspects from the legal. Most GNU projects were roughly "We'll post a tarball once in a while and not have public CVS" when I first started getting involved in OSS; projects with public CVS it was a lot easier to tell if someone was already was working on something, particularly for people as shy as I was back then; I got the impression that the "proper" thing to do would be to introduce yourself on the mailing list, propose the idea, &c. and then start working on a patch.
My particular combination of low-confidence and misanthropy steered me away from such projects.