Welcome to the "real world", where programmer ideals are often overridden by the concerns of lawyers. That's what it comes down to, you have to do it this way in the US (and other places) or risk legal issues.
https://www.clahub.com/pages/why_cla Timothy On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Sergey Didenko <sergey.dide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if that was already answered, > > Is there a possibility to get rid of this legalwall? > > I realize that there are good intents behind the existing practice, but it > feels a bit wrong for an open source artifact in the digital age of instant > sharing. > > > > > > Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement >>> process. >>> >> > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.