Cem,
I think I’ve mentioned this in the past but GOSS needs not be bazaar style open
development. Cathedral development that simply open sources the resulting
product still has tremendous value to the community.
From that perspective CLAs, and dealing with external contributions are a
non-issue because there aren’t any and open sourcing is much lower risk. All
contributions are done by USG employees or contractors. All the project looks
at are JIRA issues and determines if any warrant any internal action.
Regards,
Nigel
On 9/5/17, 9:12 AM, "License-discuss on behalf of Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY
RDECOM ARL (US)" <license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org on behalf of
cem.f.karan....@mail.mil> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
This is also important for Open Source in general; large organizations tend
to
protect themselves from being sued by curtailing activities that they see
as
unnecessary and risky. Open Source has not yet proven itself to the upper
levels of the Government as being necessary; that means that for some
managers
it will be viewed as unnecessary. If there are risks associated with it as
well, then there will be a push to end Open Source within the Government.
CLAs help reduce risk, which may give Government Open Source the time it
needs
to prove itself as necessary to upper level managers.
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