Contributor license agreements? They significantly increase friction and are completely unnecessary.
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/cla-problems As Fontana explains, the important thing is to establish inbound license (granted by contributor) is sufficient to grant the outbound license. The simplest such form is inbound=outbound, which is de facto convention and formalized with the Developer's Certificate of Origin (which was created for Linux after SCO). We specify the DCO in CONTRIBUTING and https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/license.html. Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > I am not suggesting we should set this up for PETSc just pointing out the > possibility. > > Barry > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: CLAassistant <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [coin-or/ADOL-C] Swig's Setup.py will default to lib64 which is >> inappropriate if the u… (#30) >> Date: October 10, 2020 at 9:05:25 PM CDT >> To: coin-or/ADOL-C <[email protected]> >> Cc: Barry Smith <[email protected]>, Author <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: coin-or/ADOL-C >> <reply+aad5boi6xvepy4yz53h4aln5rzewlevbnhhcvvy...@reply.github.com> >> Message-Id: <coin-or/ADOL-C/pull/30/[email protected]> >> >> >> <https://cla-assistant.io/coin-or/ADOL-C?pullRequest=30> >> Thank you for your submission! We really appreciate it. Like many open >> source projects, we ask that you sign our Contributor License Agreement >> <https://cla-assistant.io/coin-or/ADOL-C?pullRequest=30> before we can >> accept your contribution. >> You have signed the CLA already but the status is still pending? Let us >> recheck <https://cla-assistant.io/check/coin-or/ADOL-C?pullRequest=30> it. >> >> — >> You are receiving this because you authored the thread. >> Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub >> <https://github.com/coin-or/ADOL-C/pull/30#issuecomment-706638144>, or >> unsubscribe >> <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAD5BOM3Q2YFURFOEFMVQW3SKEHGLANCNFSM4SLOH3DQ>. >>
