Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Ben Finney <ben+creativecommons AT benfinney.id.au>]

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>.

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