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  • From: Ben Finney <ben+creativecommons AT benfinney.id.au>
  • To: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] We'd like your feedback on our proposed new contributor agreement for The List app
  • Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:09:22 +1100

Matt Lee <mattl AT creativecommons.org> writes:

> The List is a new web app and Android app from Creative Commons. We're
> developing it in the open, under a free software license. We'd like to
> get third party contributions, and we have an agreement that we're
> proposing that'll do that.

Please don't ask for a unilateral copyright assignment; not even a
“licensing agreement” of this kind. It is hostile to the level field
normally created by free licensing.

Instead, please just require that the work is licensed under the same
license your organisation will be granting (“inbound = outbound”).

More explanation of why CLAs are not desirable is at
<URL:http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html>.

--
\ “What I have to do is see, at any rate, that I do not lend |
`\ myself to the wrong which I condemn.” —Henry Thoreau, _Civil |
_o__) Disobedience_ |
Ben Finney




  • Re: [cc-devel] We'd like your feedback on our proposed new contributor agreement for The List app, Ben Finney, 02/04/2015

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