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

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

On 05.08.2010, at 11:48, Bernhard Kraft wrote:
> Anyways, What happens if I make contributions and have not signed the CLA?

Nothing non-trivial will be taken into account.

> I think this could act as a real world example of some things which could happen: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11079

I cannot tell you anymore how I learned about the issue (probably from http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11018), but what I fixed was this one: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/3370

> So this issue could act as some kind of "test case" for the lawyers. I did not have signed any CLA, but my contribution got (probably) included in v5 code ... Ironically I also posted a test case for the above problem/bug on 19th of May 2009.

Never saw the testcase issue, so I assume I never saw your issue report and/or patch. If this was taken to lawyers, IMHO you could hardly prove I used your patch, as it is different from what I did to the code (no doc comments) and rather trivial. From the description in #11018 it becomes clear to any coder what needs to be done. No offense, btw.

> So what is if someone finds a bug in v5, posts a bugfix. Are you not allowed (or willing) to include a bugfix until one signs a CLA?

Yes, we will not use non-trivial code, patches, designs or concepts unless a CLA has been signed. And without a signed CLA you will not get commit rights to any FLOW3 or Phoenix project we manage.

Regards,
Karsten

PS: On the topic of interpreting GPL or whatever license I recommend reading these two blog posts:
 http://blog.tabini.ca/2010/07/wordpress-the-gpl-and-cherries-on-top/
 http://blog.tabini.ca/2010/07/wordpress-and-the-gpl-the-day-after/
-- 
Karsten Dambekalns
Gimme Five!
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