On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that you can get the same effect just by having a public, documented > policy of only accepting BSD-licensed contributions. Yes, we used to do this with ZeroMQ, asking all patches to be submitted under MIT/X11. However it's one extra step for project maintainers and contributors, and every extra step is a risk and cost. If GitHub had a configurable one-time "I agree to submit all my patches to this project under license XYZ" that would be workable IMO. > Whether you have the share-alike license be the "trigger" or a simple policy > statement won't make much difference, I don't think (IANAL!). Indeed. Both will work as far as I can tell. We could modify C4.1 to allow BSD-like licenses with this extra step. That'd make it compatible with communities that have chosen such licenses. Thanks for the discussion, this has been very helpful. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
