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Add a CLA (Contributor License Agreement)

Open nschonni opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement This should be checked by bots for signing if possible https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant

nschonni avatar Sep 28 '18 17:09 nschonni

Jeff McAffer comments/questions

Contributors Licence Agreement:

  • Individual
  • Corporate

Not every company will authorize individual contributions, only corporate.

Opportunity to eliminate friction.

gcharest avatar Sep 28 '18 17:09 gcharest

https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-difference

smellems avatar Sep 28 '18 17:09 smellems

Joseph Potvin comments/questions

Exec Director XAlgorithms:

TBS IP policy defaults maps nicely to Fedora contributor agreement.

Challenge: no one follows the policy. It's a confusing policy => copyright remains with the supplier.

Copyright stays with the contributors/contractors; government is not on the hook.

Possibility of letting employees retain copyright of the code they are writing.

gcharest avatar Sep 28 '18 17:09 gcharest

CLA's appear to be a slippery slope where in some cases, prior to acceptance, it would be prudent to get the CLA vetted by legal. Checkout Ben Balter's (a Senior Manager of Product Management at GitHub ) post https://ben.balter.com/2018/01/02/why-you-probably-shouldnt-add-a-cla-to-your-open-source-project/

jtcowie avatar Oct 26 '18 14:10 jtcowie

Thanks @jtcowie !

Le ven. 26 oct. 2018 10 h 11, jtcowie [email protected] a écrit :

CLA's appear to be a slippery slope where in some cases, prior to acceptance, it would be prudent to get the CLA vetted by legal. Checkout Ben Balter's (a Senior Manager of Product Management at GitHub ) post https://ben.balter.com/2018/01/02/why-you-probably-shouldnt-add-a-cla-to-your-open-source-project/

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gcharest avatar Nov 12 '18 16:11 gcharest

So, just to continue the discussion here, we will need to look at both sides of this:

  • CLA to contribute to external OSS projects.
  • Whether we need CLA for Government of Canada OSS projects.

gcharest avatar Nov 17 '18 00:11 gcharest