[Flow] RFC: Drop CLA for Flow and Neos

Christian Loock chl at vkf-renzel.de
Tue Jul 15 09:22:54 CEST 2014


Couldnt you just add something like "When you contribute, you aggree to 
our CLA" so you dont have the hassle of filling out stuff.

On 15.07.2014 09:13, Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Quote: Helmut Hummel wrote on Mon, 14 July 2014 23:17
> ----------------------------------------------------
>> I think one of the key questions here is what licence do we think is 
>> the best for the project(s). I have no answer to that unfortunately. 
>> I also suspect that it might be impossible to answer.
>>
>> But keeping a potential blocker for contributions just to avoid a 
>> decision does not make sense to me.
>
> Well, we decided to use a CLA because we couldn't really answer that 
> question. Things have changed a bit, we now think MIT for Flow and GPL 
> for Neos would be optimal.
>
> But it might still be that things change, so unless  there is "proof" 
> that a CLA hinders contribution, I'd personally stick to it. Make it 
> easier to sign if possible, by all means. But dropping it would still 
> be second choice, because we know the future will change, so why make 
> a future change harder than it needs to be?
>
> (Proof: Any hard numbers on how dropping CLA impacting projects?)
>
> Regards,
> Karsten

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