On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Dean thinks the bugzilla license is onerous: > > i have a bug to report, but i refuse to agree to the ASLv2 just to report > a bug. i suggest you guys stop being so anal. > > I think that's not unreasonable. I modified bugzilla to say: > > # Understand that SpamAssassin is a project of the Apache Software > Foundation and is licensed under the terms and conditions of the > Apache Software License version 2.0. > # Have read and understand the terms and conditions of the Apache > Software License version 2.0. > # Certify that any object code, source code, patch, documentation, etc., > that you may supply can be redistributed under the same license terms > and conditions as SpamAssassin itself. > > Which means you only agree for contributions supplied via bugzilla, but > not the bug report itself. Better? yeah sorry -- i'm just really tired of registering for a bazillion bugzillas, and having to read so much legal crud just to contribute to anything these days. (death to SCO, long live opensource, yadda yadda, i know why this is happenning. lawyers still should be up against the wall first when the revolution comes.) your first and third points are fine. your second point is problematic though -- i haven't read ASLv2... and forcing me to read it to submit a bug report seems onerous. after submitting the bug report to you via email i realised i had several SA patches that i should at least make an argument for including upstream... that's the point where going through bugzilla would have made sense... but still -- "reading and understanding ASLv2" consumes time i could spend doing something else. especially when ASLv2 is just one of umpteen licenses that we are subject to these days. i yearn for the days i could just mail a bug report (with or without patch) to an automated address and be done with it. or at most include a "this code is public domain". i admire Linus' Signed-off-by: protocol, it is the utmost in simplicity and sufficiency. anyhow, this is off-topic, maybe two patches and one bug report will be the beginning and end of my SA contribution because it'll be perfect from here on out ;) i've added "read and understand ASLv2" to my long todo list. -dean
