Hi Is it really that big of a deal? The way I understand, it's only to prevent any legal issues in the future, no?
[...] This license is not only for the protection of the contributors themselves, but also for the protection of the project and its users; it does not change your rights to use your own Contributions for any other purpose [...] The license agreement is a legal document in which you state you are entitled to contribute the code to Audacity and are willing to have it used in distributions and derivative works. This means that should there be any kind of legal issue in the future as to the origins and ownership of any particular piece of code, Audacity has the necessary forms on file from the contributor(s) saying they were permitted to make this contribution. The CLA also ensures that once you have provided a contribution, you cannot try to withdraw permission for its use at a later date. People and companies can therefore use Audacity, confident that they will not be asked to stop using pieces of the code at a later date. Being able to make a clear statement about the origins of the code is very important as Audacity is adopted by large organizations who are necessarily cautious about adopting products with unknown origins. We wish for Audacity to be used and distributed as widely as possible and in order to do this with confidence, we need to be sure about the origins and continuing existence of the code. Can I withdraw permission to use my contributions at a later date? No. This is one of the reasons Audacity requires a CLA. No individual contributor can hold such a threat over the entire community of users. Once you make a contribution, you are saying MUSECY SM LTD (an affiliate of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar) can use that piece of code forever. Full version here: https://www.audacityteam.org/cla/ Please don't make any rash decisions... Forking the project and thereby splitting the Audacity community could have bad consequences (I'm thinking about OpenOffice vs LibreOffice). Please... try to communicate first, asking why decisions are made, to prevent jumping to conclusions. I sincerely hope we can continue to put our energy and time in the same project. Regards Thomas ________________________________ Van: Martin Srebotnjak <[email protected]> Verzonden: woensdag 2 juni 2021 9:00 Aan: [email protected] <[email protected]> Onderwerp: Re: [Audacity-translation] CONTRIBUTOR LICENSE AGREEMENT - time to fork? Helo, I totally agree with you. Let's fork. Lp, m. V V sre., 2. jun. 2021 ob 08:10 je oseba Cleber Tavano <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> napisala: Hello everybody, Again, I learned from the press that Audacity is changing everything in licensing and "forgot" to let us know why or what they're doing. Now we're asked to give in all our contributions under a murky and uncertainly-worded license agreement that will grant Muse the right to do whatever they want for good. I contribute to this software since the very beginning and I'm proud that Audacity is such an important tool used in schools around my country and that my translations made it happen. But I'm NOT an employee of Muse and I'll never be. I refuse to sign a CLA giving to these guys completely and perpetual rights over my work, including even taking my contributions and change how it's licensed. I had agreed to work under the gpl license, not to give in my rights for an "agreement" that can't even be clear about how it will be used. If I wanted to get my work used in a proprietary software, I wouldn't commit it in a GPLed project. Unless you people at Muse come with something completely different from the terms of the proposed agreement, I'll kindly ask you to retreat my contributions because I won't agree with this draconian license. First the telemetry, now this. I can't help but think that IT'S TIME TO FORK AUDACITY and let Muse do whatever they want to the code they can prove is theirs. Cleber PT_br translator _______________________________________________ Audacity-translation mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-translation
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