I think one of the main add-ons of the CLA over BSD-3 license was the clause #3 (Grant of Patent License). As far as I can tell it does not appear in the new sign-off-CLA.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) < jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > On Oct 12, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Pavel Shamis <pasharesea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You mentioned that such a change will block contributions. Did you mean > only temporarily, while individual Contributor/Member organization legal > departments are reviewing the new terms? If so, that one-time "cost" may > be acceptable, since the goal of the new terms are designed to put us in a > better place, long-term. > > > > I hope this will be a temporary freeze, unless legal folks will have > some other concerns. This is a substantial change since you modify exiting > terms and conditions (as I read it). > > Not sure what you mean: the license under which Open MPI is distributed is > still the same. > > What terms and conditions are you referring to, specifically? > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/ > about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@lists.open-mpi.org > https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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