On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Rick Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as changing anything about the way the CLA works, until we have a > foundation, the discussion of which seems to have stalled, we, as a > group, have no real authority to change anything.
Good to know. > We have a bigger hole in the Corporate CLA, IMHO. I have been told that > since it is necessary for a corporate signer to explicitly name their > individual contributers, and we have no way of updating the document, > openstack is potentially left open to a lawsuit, if an employee > unspecified in the CLA, contributes something they consider IP. I > seriously hate all this legal stuff. Fun, fun, fun. I seem to recall jQuery having some growing pains where they had to after-the-fact start doing CLA. Might be worth talking to them, if there gets to be some momentum behind reconsidering CLAs. Oregon State University Open Source Lab has a lot of knowledge around CLA options, and they have the http://www.harmonyagreements.org project. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
