On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Justin Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > I am interested in getting the SlashRoot membership all filed with CLA's. > > However, people who work on django at SlashRoot aren't "employees" - > they're members. Can we simply change the language of the CLA or are > the legal wranglings more complex than that? > > Might it be simpler for each of us to simply fill out the individual > form? Or does that not cover the proper basis of members be able to > work on django on paid company time?
I'm not sure that the employee/member distinction that you're making here is significant from the point of view of the CLA. We need a corporate CLA to cover those jurisdictions where companies implicitly or contractually own the work of anyone working for them. Whether those people are called "members" or "employees" doesn't really matter; we need the corporate entity to release their copyright, and enumerate the people covered by that release. However, it's certainly something worth clarifying. I'd also be wary of just altering the language to say "member" -- certain words can be loaded when it comes to legal documents, and I don't know the status of "member" when it comes to US law. I'll add this to the list of things we need to ask the lawyers. It looks like we need to do some work here anyway, because in reviewing the corporate CLA to answer your question, I noticed that it references a "Schedule B" that doesn't exist... Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
