On 2014-07-04 18:08, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > 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.
Thanks for bearing with me. :-) -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
