[Python-Dev] Introducing Electronic Contributor Agreements

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at 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.
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