On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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/ > http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ > http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing_Code > 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 The ones I've checked or am familiar with apparently define "contribute" differently than the clojure project does, in that they allow you to both subscribe to the developer list(s) and submit bug reports - including patches - without having to sign and post a contributor agreement. Or maybe it's the clojure web site making things difficult to find. Nuts, I happened to apply for my Chickasaw Nation citizenship today - which gives me tribal voting rights, free health care at tribal hospitals and clinics, the ability to get grants for education, housing, free laptops, etc, etc, etc. That was less work than being allowed to submit a bug to the issue tracking system for clojure (unless I just didn't find the right page....). It was also more work than submitting patches looks to be for apache, django, gnu, fedora, or openoffice (from your list, though it sounds like openoffice may changed for the worse) or I know to be for FreeBSD, PostreSQL, OpenSolaris, Python, Cheetah, to name some I've been using for a while. Sure, many of them require you to create an account to submit any bug report. But that's straightforward, and a not unreasonable anti-spam measure. Some even require you to click a checkbox assigning the rights to anything you submit to the project in question as part of that process. But I can still contribute patches to these projects without having to print, sign and post any kind of developer agreement. <mike -- Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- 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
