John Plocher wrote:
> [multiple replies in one message...]
>
>
> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> > John Plocher wrote:
> >> From the OGB's perspective, all we are defining are three governance
> >> related roles:
> >>
> >> Participant - Someone who is interacting with our community
> >> Contributer - Someone who has contributed something significant
> >> to our community and has filed a contributer agreement
> >
> > Do you all literally mean this?
> > Only non-Sun community members file SCAs so that's a problem.
>
> Duh! It needs to include both, obviously. Or drop the requirement
> for a SCA (though, if we are indeed drawing a line around current practice,
> that practice does require the agreement...)
>
As I previously stated, this is false. There are contributions that
have come in the form of other licensing arrangements, such as BSD
licensed code. (See afe/mxfe for an example.) I can well imagine the
same might apply for Creative Commons licensed contributions as well.
I would suggest dropping the SCA requirement.
-- Garrett
