scan -> email would be more convenient for me. @Chistopher > people keep citing it as some unique requirement foisted upon the community > by a power hungry dictator
That's a generalization that lacks any relation to this thread, and I guess even the clojure community in general. I'm not aware of any criticism of our beloved dictator and I hope he'll serve many more terms. As long as he doesn't torture his people (like force them into signing CAs ;) Back to the git pull request question - nobody seems to know anything about it, but that issue should not be related to legal issues, if clojure maintainers pull only stuff from CA signers, right? On Feb 6, 10:42 am, Christopher Petrilli <petri...@amber.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Mike Meyer > > <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:09:41 -0500 > > Christopher Petrilli <petri...@amber.org> wrote: > >> For example, the following projects REQUIRE contributor agreements, in > >> writing, signed and either scanned or on paper, prior to accepting any > >> patches or commits: > > >> - Free Software Foundation > >> - Apache, and everything under it > >> - Python > > I'm sorry, I'm going to call foul on this. I've contributed to Python > > without ever signing a CA. And the current developers guide page > > doesn't have anything on it about needing to sign a CA. > > I do not know when you contributed, or whether it was before this > period, but > fromhttp://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq: > > > If your code is going to end up in Python or the standard library, the PSF > > will require you to: > > * License your code under an acceptable open source license. These > > currently include only the Academic Free License and the Apache License > > 2.0, although this list may be expanded in the future. (No, the PSF License > > is not acceptable; see below) > > * Fill out and submit a contributor agreement. > > Perhaps they exclude some small amount of code in the form of patches, > but it certainly applies to libraries, etc. You can find the > contributor agreement here:http://www.python.org/psf/contrib-form.htmlIt's > not that different > than the one for Clojure. Again, I'm not arguing whether it's a "good > thing" or not, simply that it's actually not as unheard of as people > think, nor is it poorly founded in US legal precedent. > > > Seriously, the "snail-mail" requirement is the only one that's really > > objectionable. Most places are quite happy with a scanned image of the > > signed document (i.e. - the Chickasaw nation for my citizenship > > papers). > > Then perhaps someone can offer to Rich to accept the scanned copies > and deal with them? One of the "joys" of an open source project is not > just contributing code, but helping out with the administrative > overhead of running a project. > > Chris > -- > | Chris Petrilli > | petri...@amber.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
