Hello, On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 4 Dez., 05:17, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > The rules on contrib are that the work must be original to the author. >> > > Even >> > > with Andrew's disclaimer that it be considered public domain, he would >> > > still >> > > need a contributor agreement in place to get this incorporated into >> > > contrib. >> > >> > Why? >> > >> > (Having to use paper mail is especially a high hurdle for what is >> > otherwise >> > a purely online activity.) >> >> Because that are the rules. > > Circular argument. Those are the rules because those are the rules? That > doesn't satisfy me any more than it does my three-year-old. > >> >> Eg. in Germany > > I'm not in Germany. > >> >> Rich wants to be sure, that there will not be any legal >> issues later on. Understandable, I think. (And a good idea, BTW) > > The problem is that it is an unreasonably high barrier to entry. There MUST > be an electronic-only way (and it must not require a cell phone, CC#, &c.) > if the full potential of this community is to be unleashed upon > clojure-contrib. In particular, there should be a way to participate > pseudonymously for those people that (unlike myself) value their privacy > sufficiently not to want to even post here under their real names.
Remember SCO & IBM & Novell & Linux & many others? I assume this is why many open source projects today require CAs. -- Miron Brezuleanu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
