[Python-Dev] Contributor agreements (was Re: DRAFT: python-dev summary for 2006-04-01 to 2006-04-15)

[Steven Bethard]

On 5/29/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> .. _contributor agreement:
> >> http://www.python.org/psf/contrib-form-python.html
> >
> > By itself, this link is inadequate since there is a blank for 'Initial
> > License' with no choices indicated.  So the summary needs a link to an
> > instruction page also.  The form is also a bit confusing since it appears
> > to talk about future contributions but the last line tacked on to the
> > bottom refers to the past.  If it means both, then why not say so in the
> > main text in a way that non-lawyers can understand?
>
> That's the modified version of the form for people like me that have
> contributed stuff before sending the form in (I have one sitting on my desk
> that will be going in the mail real soon now, honest. . .).
>
> There's another page somewhere in the PSF section that talks about contributor
> agreements in general - maybe that would be a better link for the summary?

Sounds like it.  (That wasn't anywhere in the thread.)  Does
http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ seem like the right page to link
to?

Thanks,

STeVe
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