On 20.12.2007, at 16:31, David Zülke wrote:
No. This Apache CLA most of today's CLAs used by open source projects (Zend Framework, Cake etc) are derived from require you to grant an unlimited, unrevocable, royalte-free, blah-blah license to use your contribution, and, if _you_ hold patents on this invention, that you grant the same for those patents you own. Those CLAs do not require that you guarantee that your contribution is not violating any 3rd-party patents.
IANAL, but this is not what I read in these licenses. Zak told me that this is what the ez System CLA is supposed to say as well, but I simply do not see that in there. I have asked IBM to clear up this point back when they first started pushing CLA's for PECL packages, but they never got back. Anyways, maybe I am just dense, but maybe all the CLA authors should just put in an effort to make it possible for people to understand their licenses without having to consult a lawyer.
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