On 19.05.2016 19:01, David Cramblett wrote: > Yeah, or "CofO", or "Sign-Off", or whatever term folks feel the most > comfortable with. It doesn't have to be "CLA", it could be whatever make > since. Just something protecting the project from the unlikely "evil > company scenario".
Sorry, but I seem to have missed something. What "evil company" scenario exactly do you talk about? In large opensource projects like the Linux kernel multiple contributors provide patches/pull request that eventually get merged. Every contributor retains the copyright to the code she or he has contributed. Using git, a list of all contributors is relatively easy to compile when signed-off-by tags are used. If there would be a license change mandated, all contributors would have to agree to this change. If they don't, the project still could change the license, but the code from the contributors rejecting the change would have to be removed and/or replaced with code from other contributors who support the change. > > David > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Kris Lou <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > How about making the above explanation in a "How to contribute to > BackupPC development", and requiring a short note in the pull > request? Something as simple as "CLA:agreed"? I'm not a lawyer but I seriously doubt that this is considered as legally binding. And I definitely would not want to participate in a project that requires me to sign a CLA. I even would consider to refrain from _using_ BackupPC if this is implemented. Just because in this case, there would be a single entity who could change the rules from one day to the other. And I would not want to risk the ability to restore my own backups from last year. And no, I would never expect Craig to do something evil like that. But this is because I trust him personally. I would not have the same trust in whatever organization that would have to be created or mandated to serve as the final copyright holder. Just my 2 cents. And, as mentioned above, I'm not a lawyer. Regards Stefan Peter -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style for details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
