On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:03 +0100, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
> The disadvantage of a new version would be that it would no longer be
> almost directly corresponding to the perhaps better known Apache
> contribution license, 
I guess that the ACLA has been pounded upon by lawyers,
so there must be some sense behind it. And just as an example,
if you left out the "sell" bit, you'd have some code under old CLA
that can be sold and others under new CLA not ... 

> but the upside is that we can make it less
> lawyer-like in the language and easier to understand..
> Any views..?
What about a FAQ for potential contributors in non-lawyer speak ?
You could start putting the answers to my questions there,
which were quite informative so far.

Yours,
Steffen

P.S.: Yes, I did find the LGPL statements by now :-)

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