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

[Bernhard Kraft]

Am 2010-08-05 22:49, schrieb Karsten Dambekalns:

> 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.

So yet three other questions:

1. Will it be possible to create plugins/extensions/whatever-you-call-it 
for FLOW3/Phoenix or would this also require one to sign a CLA. Or if 
something like an extension repository is going to be available: Will 
only people be allowed to put extensions in there if they have signed an 
CLA ? or kind of L-CLA like compared to the LGPL?

And if I have signed the CLA - is an extension then automatically 
counted as contribution and completly handed over to the Association?


2. If the complete FLOW3/Phoenix project is released under the GPL, 
someone could at any time be allowed to make a complete copy of it, 
probably call it "FireTypo based on Phoenix". To name it: make a fork.

This is nothing I would like to do, but I just wonder what would happen 
if someone takes this steps. For TYPO3 such a thing was not necessary. 
Everyone was able to submit patches, improvements and new features. In 
Phoenix you limit this group to a number of people who sign a contract.


3. Can one cancle the CLA. I mean if at some time I would find I do not 
like the CLA anymore. Can I retreat from it, so leaving all rights for 
software I already created to the Assoc, but not for future work.


greets,
Bernhard