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

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

On 05.08.2010, at 21:17, Tolleiv.Nietsch wrote:
> I wonder why I've never heard of a CLA in relation to any other OSS project.

a) because for a long time everyone thought the GPL is enough
b) you probably never looked for it, because you didn't know you should look :)

Google http://www.google.de/search?rls=en&q=cla+open+source spits out a lot of (well-known) projects which require signing of a CLA, among them the Apache Foundation, Fedora, Zend Framework, OpenCMS, and others. Most of these also do a good job on explaining the various reasons for such agreements.

At the end of the day it comes down to this: if you don't like it, don't sign it. But please make an informed decision.

Regards,
Karsten
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