I am concerned that the definition of Contributors in Section 3 applies to two different roles. When a work is submitted to the Licensor, there is an actual contributor, the person who submitted the code to the mailing list/source control system/etc., and there is the person who holds the copyright on the code that the contributor submitted. These are not the same people if the person submitting the work got the code from another program or from an open forum.
> A. The Licensor and any individual or legal entity that > voluntarily submits to the Licensor a Contribution to the Work are > collectively addressed herein as "Contributors". > C. A Contribution is "submitted" when any form of electronic, > verbal, or written communication is sent to the Licensor, > including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing > lists, source code control systems Contributor == actual submitter. > A. [...] For legal > entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other entities > that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with > that entity are considered to be a single Contributor. [...] > B. [...] where such modifications and/or additions > to the Work originate from that particular Contributor, or from > some entity acting on behalf of that Contributor. Contributor == copyright holder. Suggestions to disambiguate it: - Extend Contributor to include people whose works are incorporated without their knowledge. - Break out Contributor and Copyright Holder into separate definitions. This also affect Section 4, since a contributor that doesn't hold copyright to the code can't grant any rights to that work. Jason Wies
