[sldev] Upcoming viewer releases?

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Lawson English wrote:
>> 1) - Get rid of the "you don't have a signed contribution/legal 
>> agreement so we can't accept your fix" Maybe for features you could 
>> keep this, but drop it for bug fixes. It's unnecessary and cumbersome 
>> and the only reason I have an agreement on file was because I bored 
>> that week. By signing into jira I consider that my patch will be part 
>> of the source. I'd be curious to what others think on this but it 
>> seems to me that asking for a signature is nothing more than CYA and 
>> I don't see other open source projects doing this.
>>
>
> aAs far as I know, there's a legal requirement for this. Perhaps 
> they're only being excessive in their dotting of i's, etc., but I'm 
> sure that their lawyers have told them better safe than sorry.

It may be true that there is a legal requirement, but that requirement 
falls outside of the Open Source Definition. Open Source carries the the 
virtue of being non-discriminatory.


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