[TYPO3-team-core-v5] Contributor License Agreement

[Bernhard Kraft]

Hello !

I have a few questions regarding the CLA (Contributor License Agreement).
The CLA is one reason why I have avoided to get in contact with v5 until
now. Recently I created my first two (currently non-public) extbase/fluid
extensions, which work quite well.

Now I re-read the CLA and especially paragraph 3 is quite complicated for
me to understand, as I am not an expert with patent law.

All public contributions I made to TYPO3 were licensed under the GPL, and
I think I have read the GPL already a few times, in German and English. I
do not see the reason for having an additional license I have to sign.

Almost all other software is fine with not having such an agreement. I know
that Apache is one of the most widely used pieces of Open-Source software and
also requires signing such an agreement. But for me as a programmer and
non-lawyer it is rather complicated understanding why I have to sign a
kind of contract.

I mean I am used to sign a contract when I rent a flat or buy a car.
But until now I never had to sign a contract if I give something away
for free. I mean if I spend money for greenpeace, etc. I accept their
terms and conditions, which mostly tell me the money will be used for
something senseful. But I have in now way a right to verify this or get
my money back somehow (in most of the cases) ...

So I am just a little bit anxious about signing a CLA - I did not have to
do this when I wanted to contribute before. I always put the GPL header in
front of any work I made, and was most of the time conscious about what
this means ...



greets,
Bernhard