Contribution agreements (Re: [sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 18:22 -0700, Justin Ryan wrote:
> The problem here is that LL thinks of its' GPL creation(s) as
> something that it *owns* rather than *has the responsibility to
> protect*.  You won't get any contributions from me directly as a
> member of the F/OSS community to a project where you can take credit
> for my code,

I believe Linden Lab makes an honest effort to give people credit for
their patches. You may very well disagree.

> and decide without my permission to use it as part of
> your business, without compensation.  This is not an equal seat at the
> table and quite frankly, given that the Computer Graphics industry as
> a whole takes SL for something of the AOL of Metaverses,

Without permission? Linden Lab will not take anything until you sign the
CLA, and *submit* it yourself on Jira. If that is not "giving
permission", then I don't know what is. No one is forcing you to submit
your patches to LL. But if you choose to do so, you do it on their
terms. That's the deal.

Without compensation? Yes, it is an unequal seat at the table. Linden
Lab has given you a hell of a lot more source code than you have given
them.

Have you actually coded *anything* or are you just another one of the
loudmouths clogging up the list with un-constructive arguments and
flamewars and personal agendas? There's a maddening lack of "Patch or
GTFO" lately.
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