Re: [Django] #830: Add AUTHORS file to distribution

2005-11-20 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
 WFIW, Dojo collects CLAs from contributors. I signed it, when submitted code.   OTOH, anybody can be sued for no reasons whatsoever. Don't ask me how I know it. :(   Thanks,   Eugene "David Ascher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...IP discussions are worth

Re: [Django] #830: Add AUTHORS file to distribution

2005-11-18 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
 WFIW, Dojo collects CLAs from contributors. I signed it, when submitted code.   OTOH, anybody can be sued for no reasons whatsoever. Don't ask me how I know it. :(   Thanks,   Eugene "David Ascher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...IP discussions are wort

Re: [Django] #830: Add AUTHORS file to distribution

2005-11-18 Thread Ian Holsman
As David already mentioned, obtaining the copyright now is easier than later. the reason you want this is so If you have to change your license in years to come (which the ASF had gone through recently) you can easily do this. Another reason I have seen is when a individual contributor is doing t

Re: [Django] #830: Add AUTHORS file to distribution

2005-11-17 Thread David Ascher
IP discussions are worth having, if often painful.I'm far from an expert (or a lawyer), but as a director of the PSF, I unfortunately have a lot of conversations about this stuff.I worry a bit about the current system "scaling" in the long term, as today's core devs may not stick around for 10 year

Re: [Django] #830: Add AUTHORS file to distribution

2005-11-17 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Ian Holsman wrote: I thought this should be off-line. Thanks for being sensitive, but there's no reason to and I think other might be interested so I'm replying back to the list. but have you guys thought about django's IP? I see you have trademarked the name,