From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Fontana Subject: Re: Signed-off-by and aliases Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:56:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20140520135645.GA8381@redhat.com> References: <537A1FAE.9060300@dachary.org> <1400513274.44658.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20140520041926.GA7063@redhat.com> <537AE8CF.7050307@dachary.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20013 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750841AbaETN4w (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 09:56:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537AE8CF.7050307@dachary.org> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Loic Dachary Cc: Koleos Fuscus , Ceph Development On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:31:59AM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: > However, I know of at least one other instance where finding a way > to handle aliases would allow contributors to participate in the > Ceph project. OVH is a large hosting company employing a number of > developers and management explicitly forbids participation in Free > Software projects. The primary reason being that they could be > contacted by companies looking for talents. If their contributions > were clustered under the OVH alias, they may have > permission to publish their code. On the assumption that OVH is the copyright holder of all such contributions, and would knowingly permit employees contributing using this alias, this seems okay to me. - Richard