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