Can we get this discussion off python-dev? It's not going to change, and this is not the forum to express your disagreement.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> On 13/04/13 20:30, Ben Finney wrote: >> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> writes: >> >> A failure to sign the CLA is already a decision not to contribute >> >> to the distribution >> > >> > As someone who cannot in good faith sign the CLA, that >> > characterisation is far from accurate: I would very much like to >> > contribute to the Python distribution, and so have not decided as >> > you describe. >> >> Could you explain, briefly, why you cannot sign the CLA? > > Because software freedom in a work is undermined when any recipient is > granted special legal privilege in the work. > > As it currently stands, the Contributor Agreement grants special legal > privilege in the work (the power to unilaterally re-license the work) to > the PSF. > > By “special privilege”, I mean that this power is granted specially to > some but denied to all other recipients of the work. Hence to sign the > Contributor Agreement as it currently stands is to undermine software > freedom in the resulting work. > > -- > \ “Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what | > `\ mnemonic means, you've got a problem.” —Larry Wall | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
