17 Oct
2014
17 Oct
'14
7:01 p.m.
Am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2014 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
While I understand fully what you are saying, in all
honesty I am not
concerned about problems from contributors outside of the USA/UK. I think
most of the free world understands what contributing to open source means;
it's just our two countries (and maybe one or two others, not sure) where
people seem to want to have their cake and eat it too.
This whole CLA thing kicked off many months ago because I have someone who
lives in the USA and works for a USA-based engineering firm; basically in
this situation the person's employer de facto owns all works created by
the employee even in their off time unless the company explicitly releases
those rights. Previously we had no mechanism by which the employee could
ask the company to do that, and therefore no way for that person to ever
contribute to TDE; now we have a mechanism in place.
Tim
I'd call this kind of contract slavery.
Anyway, I'd go for a shorter license agreement. Something in the kind of "I, the
contributor, own all rights of my contribution. I hold the project harmless against any
third-party claims" (don't know if that's the correct term, in german
it's "schad und klaglos halten").
As far as my experience with lawyers goes, these kind of folk hate simple terms. Judges on
the other hand love simple terms.
Nik
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