On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 01:33 +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:06:12PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > > > > What's the Individual Contributor Agreement, and why would we want one > > > > of those? Communities should wait until they get large before they > > > > start instituting bureaucracy that turns their potential new members > > > > away.. > > > > Most project have some sort of agreement. > > Citation? Many of the largest free software projects in existence > have no such thing -- GNOME, Ubuntu, the Linux kernel -- and each > has widespread ties with all kinds of businesses. >
Fedora - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct Apache - http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas > > Sometime they are as simple as 'I am who I say I am and have the right > > to contribute what I will contribute. > > > > One of my goals is for a vibrant ecosystem of businesses, NFPs and NGOs > > to form around Sugar. If a contributor agree makes them more > > comfortable, it will be worth the head aches. > > I still think this is not a good idea. I'm not sure what it's gaining > us -- are you saying we'd refuse code from people who are unwilling to > sign such an agreement? If the intent is to prove something about our > codebase, then what about the code that's written before the agreement > comes into existence? What happens when OLPC merges some donated code > but the Sugar Labs rules demand an agreement for it? > > I'm struck by the disconnect between Greg's advice of "let anyone who > says they want to be a member be a member" and this new "let anyone who > enters into a legal agreement with us be a member"; my intuition sides > on the relaxed side of the continuum. > Signing the CLA is part of Fedora's "let anyone who says they want to be a member be a member" process. I recognize your unease at the added paperwork. On this one, we are going to have to see what the Oversight board decides based on the advice of SFC. thanks david _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
