[Flow] RFC: Drop CLA for Flow and Neos

Jigal van Hemert jigal.van.hemert at typo3.org
Tue Jul 15 21:14:38 CEST 2014


Hi,

On 14-7-2014 23:17, Helmut Hummel wrote:
> 1. Do we think *now* that a copyleft licence (e.g. GPL) is good for the
> project to prosper? If so, keep it and drop the CLA. If not, change it
> to a more permissive licence (e.g. MIT) *now* and drop the CLA.
>
> 2. Changing the licence at a later point (if we think it helps for the
> porject to prosper) without a CLA may be harder, but it is not
> impossible. We could even switch from our CLA to a FLA like e.g KDE[2]
> which is *optional* to sign and not *mandatory*

I wouldn't mind if we would have a Public Domain (or EUPD) license. 
Personally I like the name of the WTFPL, but it isn't recognized by all 
license experts organisations :-)

The CLA wasn't too hard for me with a 4-in-1 in the house, but I can 
imagine that some people don't like the effort.

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