On Oct 19, 7:55 pm, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:01 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. At least not for reading the dev list or submitting patches. > > In my experience, it's pretty standard practice for any successful > open source project that expects to be used by large corporations. > > I don't understand why anyone objects to them...?
I've never understood the friction on this one: - If Apache and Sun/Oracle (along with a pile of others) do X w.r.t. legalities, it seems prudent to follow suit as is practical. - Barring that, do we really want to take even the smallest of chances? - Barring that, is not completion of the CA a reasonable a priori proxy for the level of commitment of a contributor, where a base level of commitment is desirable? - Barring that, if the FSF's 20 lines (or whatever) is the threshold – surely the size of a small bugfix – have we ever not patched a bug because someone's small patch was rejected due to the lack of a CA? Reporting a bug requires nothing. - Barring that, assuming you're not a well-credentialed open source lawyer, are you really comfortable second-guessing legal decisions from afar? Sorry for the rant. I suggested in the channel sometime last month that a "Lodge your CA here" table should be set up at the Conj. Anyone know if that's a go or not? IMO, no one should leave on Saturday without being settled in this department. - Chas -- 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
