Fair point; everyone needs to look at this and decide a) if that's ok, or b) if 
we want to change it to incorporate clause #3.


> On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Pavel Shamis <pasharesea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
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