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

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-04-22, at 12:02, Justin Ryan wrote:
> That is much better than the Plone Foundation, and I commend you for
> it, but I still think you're inviting trouble unless you can prove
> that these contributors have never worked on or studied GPL code that
> is not dual licensed under BSD, MIT, X11, or similar.

That's SCO's argument against Linux. Please tell me you don't  
honestly believe that if SCO had been a bit smarter about their  
contract with Novell they really WOULD have the rights to control the  
distribution of Linux that they claimed.