>________________________________________ >From: Jeremy Stanley [fu...@yuggoth.org] >Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 2:05 PM > >On 2014-09-15 16:47:13 +0000 (+0000), Sandy Walsh wrote: >> It's the Corporate CLA that's needed. The companies that want to >> contribute have already vetted and signed the CCLA. They need >> protection in case someone contributes something nasty. >> Accidentally or intentionally. >[...] > >Hopefully you understand that Gerrit does not in any way enforce the >CCLA for any projects, official or otherwise?
Hmm, my understanding was that branches are not accepted without a signed ICLA. Is that not the default case? >> If we can make a great widget and our license is suitably >> permissive, is there a reason we should need inclusion? > >Not at all. It was merely the only reason I could conceive for you >wanting to impose the ICLA on your contributors. In fact it sounds >like you may have done so due to a misunderstanding? IANAL, so it could very well be. I'll talk with our contributors about that. >> It would let us continue developing our software as we are >> currently. Business as usual. And it would protect the >> contributing companies just as the CCLA does today. Getting these >> companies to vet and sign another CCLA would be very hard to do. >> And us getting a new CCLA/ICLA in place would be impossible. > >I believe this may be a giant error in interpretation of the >document, and I strongly encourage you to bring it up on the >legal-disc...@lists.openstack.org mailing list since yours may not >be the only project making such assumptions. Yep, sounds like further opinion is needed. >> We are OpenStack users and an OpenStack focused project. We're just >> trying to do it with minimum bureaucracy. > >In this case CLA bureaucracy is imposed on official OpenStack >projects due to foundation bylaws. There should be no need to >inflict this on other projects which are not an official part of >OpenStack itself and have no intention of becoming so, and the >wording therein may not be providing any protection to unofficial >projects and their contributors whatsoever. That's definitely interesting. I'll follow up. I gave [1] a read, which was helpful. But it's not definitive in any way. >Jeremy Stanley Thanks for the feedback Jeremy. This could be a great help. [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackAndItsCLA > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-Infra mailing list >OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
