<div dir="auto">that would seem to be sensible and pragmatic. Though in most cases stackoverflow would be the source!<div dir="auto">How would this be done and monitored?</div><div dir="auto">Would we need this to be done before any merges to trunk for new bods?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Sep 2017 00:38, "Raoul Snyman" <<a href="mailto:raoul@snyman.info">raoul@snyman.info</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey folks,<br>
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I've been thinking for a while about the legal aspect of people contributing to OpenLP (specifically who the code "belongs" to from a copyright perspective). It's difficult because we're all from different legal contexts (aka different countries), and what might constitute a legally binding agreement in one might not in another. The way a lot modern open source projects get around this is by making their developers sign a Contributor License Agreement, which is supposed to help the projects if legal action is taken on the project by some company or other entity.<br>
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I'm not a fan of CLAs because they can sometimes go as far as forcing copyright assignment from one party to another, and this doesn't sit well with me.<br>
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I recently came across an alternative, which I think works better than a CLA. It is called a Developer Certificate of Origin[0]. Basically, you just declare that your code that you contributed is your own original work, and this way the project as a whole can say, "look, this code was not copied from $PRODUCT_X" to anyone who enquires.<br>
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What do you think?<br>
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[0] <a href="https://developercertificate.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developercertificate.o<wbr>rg/</a><br>
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