[opensource-dev] Please - enough about the CA

[Gareth Nelson]

None of those projects have an agreement that allows proprietary versions

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
<oz at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:
>
> SL is the ONLY so-called (but actually still not, obviously: a Canada-Dry
> LGPL, perhaps ?) LGPL Open Source project requiring a License agreement
> from its contributors !!!  This makes strictly no sense and is a clear
> impairement.
>
> Axiom, OpenOffice, NetBeans, Joomla!, Alfresco, ...
>
>
> and all projects under the Apache Foundation.
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas
>
> and the Perl Foundation
>
> http://www.perlfoundation.org/contributor_license_agreement
>
> and the Python Foundation
>
> http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form-python/
>
> none of which are in any way commercial, and all of whom embody the ideals
> to which other open source projects aspire.
>
> I know that some of you won't sign an agreement, and that you have reasons
> you think are good.  I accept that whether I agree with those reasons or
> not, while deeply regreting not being able to share in your work.
>
> If any of you are unsure what the implications of the agreement are, I am
> happy to provide what assistance I can if you contact me _off_ of the list
> (but I am not a lawyer, and crucially I am not _your_ lawyer).
>
> There may come a time when Linden Lab will revisit the requirement for or
> the terms of the CA.  If I'm still here, I'll let the community know when
> that is happening.
>
> For the time being, changing the CA is not on the table - we've got other
> things to spend our time and energy on at the moment - like making Second
> Life Fast, Easy, and Fun.
>
> If you feel the need to continue to rail against the CA, please take it
> somewhere else and leave this list to people who are trying to do the things
> that are possible now.
>
>
>
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