[opensource-dev] Draft update to the Contribution Agreement

[Darien Caldwell]

Well, It certainly is interesting. The gist seems to be, LL becomes a full
co-owner of the contribution, including owning half of any copyright or
patent claims to any submitted contribution. This is sensible, as any
contribution becomes a core part of LL's business. I do like that LL now
takes up the mantle of defending against any infringement themselves,
rather than leaving that seemingly in the contributor's hands. I think it
also does a better job of making clear that the contribution still belongs
(in part) to the contributor, and that they can still do anything, and
everything they want to do with it, as long as that doesn't involve
removing that same right from LL, their 'partner'.

But of course the core objection most have is still there, that the
'partnership' is a bit lopsided. But If you were already comfortable with
contributing code with no expectation of financial gain, I don't see
anything that would change that feeling of comfort.

                        - Dari

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <oz at lindenlab.com
> wrote:

>  As most of you probably know, Linden Lab acquired Desura™, a digital
> distribution service for PC gamers.
>
> The code for the Desura client is open source, managed as the Desurium
> project on github <https://github.com/desura/Desurium>.  The Desurium
> project used a different open source licenses (GPLv3) than we use for the
> Second Life Viewer project, and had its own Contribution Agreement.
>
> After some discussion with both Second Life and Desurium contributors,
> Linden Lab has produced a draft of a new Contributor License Agreement<http://lecs.opensource.secondlife.com/draft-contribution-agreement-2013-10-04.pdf>that we would like to use for both projects in the future.  This email is
> an invitation to contributors and potential contributors to discuss that
> draft here.
>
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