Re: [Python-Dev] Making it possible to accept contributions without CLA (was: My thinking about the development process)

2014-12-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 9 Dec 2014 08:47, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Dec 09, 2014, at 09:31 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Rather, I'm asking what, specifically, necessitates this situation. What would need to change, for the PSF to accept contributions to the Python copyrighted works, without requiring

Re: [Python-Dev] Making it possible to accept contributions without CLA (was: My thinking about the development process)

2014-12-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 09, 2014, at 07:42 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: A more restricted CLA that limited the PSF's outgoing licence choices to OSI approved open source licenses might address some of the concerns without causing problems elsewhere, but the combination of being both interested in core development and

[Python-Dev] Making it possible to accept contributions without CLA (was: My thinking about the development process)

2014-12-08 Thread Ben Finney
Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com writes: There's no real way around this, is there? […] the CLA part is pretty unavoidable. The PSF presently madates that any contributor to Python sign URL:http://legacy.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/contributor-agreement.pdf the “Contributor

Re: [Python-Dev] Making it possible to accept contributions without CLA (was: My thinking about the development process)

2014-12-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 09, 2014, at 09:31 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Rather, I'm asking what, specifically, necessitates this situation. What would need to change, for the PSF to accept contributions to the Python copyrighted works, without requiring the contributor to do anything but license the work under Apache