[sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL

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More to it, the contributor agreement is an attempt at getting a
single statement blessed by our legal department that the patches
really are offered under specific terms of use. A mixture of
differently worded offers to random Lindens through random channels
would paralyze us. We'd constantly be stuck, trying to figure out what
we can and can't do with code incorporating code under all those
different offers.

Even if we were a pure GPL project of this scale, as a commercial
project we'd be mad to work without a contributor agreement. Take a
look at the SCO debacle to see what ad hoc licensing work can lead to.
An event like that would be trouble not just for LL, but for anyone
else redistributing the code.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Harold Brown <labrat.hb at gmail.com> wrote:
> The release client is not GPL.  Without the contribution agreement
>  they can't add that code to the release client.   Which means it then
>  can't be added to the GPL code, because that code is derived from the
>  closed license release client.
>
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:34:26 -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>  >
>  > > On 4/10/08 11:35 AM, Henri Beauchamp wrote:
>  > > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:22:40 -0400, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > >> Henri Beauchamp wrote:
>  > > >>
>  > > >>> I already gave up submitting bug reports to the JIRA as this proved
>  > > >>> to be a total loss of time and energy.
>  > > >>>
>  > > >>>
>  > > >> I vote that some people are not allowed posting there anyway without a
>  > > >> patch attached. Especially those that claim they're so good that by the
>  > > >> time they spent ranting they could have squashed a few bugs. How come we
>  > > >> have any open issues at all then.
>  > > >>
>  > > >
>  > > > Be happy: http://sldev.free.fr/
>  > > >
>  > > > I do not only criticize, I also contribute. All my patches were also
>  > > > submitted to the JIRA.... with little to no result.
>  > > >
>  > > ....but without a contribution agreement, so we can't accept the
>  > > changes  :-(
>  >
>  > I already replied to you on this point: my patches are released under
>  > the GPL. You do not need a contribution agreement to apply GPLed patches
>  > to GPL code.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Henri.
>  >
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