On Oct 19, 7:01 pm, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-googlegroups. 620...@mired.org> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:51:17 -0700 (PDT) > > Mibu <mibu.cloj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The greatest impediment for me is having to sign a contract to > > participate in an open source project. I understand Rich Hickey and > > most of you guys live in the litigious US and have to cover > > yourselves, but I feel not right about this. > > I've never run into a project - US-based or not - that required > this.
http://www.apache.org/licenses/ "The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) [PDF form]." http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ "Like many other open-source communities, the OpenJDK Community requires contributors to jointly assign their copyright on contributed code. If you haven't yet signed the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA) then please do so, scan it and e-mail the result to sun_ca(at)sun.com." http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing_Code "If you expect to make code-related contributions, you must sign and return the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA). Without an OCA on file, Oracle cannot integrate your contribution into the MySQL code base or engage in extended discussions on proposed patches." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Revised_Fedora_CLA_Draft#FPCA_Text http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Contributor+License+Agreement http://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/cla/faq/ http://nodejs.org/cla.html http://www.10gen.com/contributor etc. Rich -- 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
