On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On 05/03/13 09:08, Brett Cannon wrote:
Depends on your paranoia. If you're worried about accidentally lifting IP
merely by reading someone's source code, then you wouldn't want to touch code without the CLA signed.
Now I'm not that paranoid, but I'm still not about to commit someone's code now without the CLA signed to make sure we are legally covered for the patch. If someone chooses not to contribute because of the CLA that's fine, but since we have already told at least Anatoly that we won't accept patches from him until he signs the CLA I'm not going to start acting differently towards others. I view legally covering our ass by having someone fill in a form is worth the potential loss of some contribution in the grand scheme of things.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does a CLA protect us in the event of an IP violation?
Maybe it doesn't. IANAL and I was just trying to think in as paranoid of a fashion as I could.