On 11 Jan 2007, at 15:40, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Carl Franks wrote:
On 11/01/07, Toby Corkindale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... Attempts to correct said
documentation by me failed, as you need to sign a disclosure
saying your
contributions are owned by the Dojo Foundation (so they can
publish a
book later) ...
The CLA ( http://dojotoolkit.org/icla.txt ) grants them a copyright
license for your work.
The work is still owned by you...
"Except for the license granted herein to the Foundation and
recipients of software distributed by the Foundation, You reserve all
right, title, and interest in and to Your Contributions."
You could dispute its commercial use...
"the Foundation shall not use Your Contributions in a way that is ...
inconsistent with its nonprofit status"
After I faxed them the CLA they commited my previous submissions,
with
no problems.
I didn't have a problem with the CLA itself.. I just couldn't be
bothered to actually go through with the procedure to sign it.
(I only found out after I submitted stuff, so it's wasted time, but
I didn't want to waste any more either.)
We (and clients) tend to just put a CCLA in, then any contribution
can go back. The "if it's in the main source tree we don't have to
maintain the patchsets" argument tends to work well with management IME.
Printing and faxing an ICLA is hardly much work either, and dojo is
getting major corporate interest (including from people like IBM)
because the CLA stuff ensures their licensing coherency.
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