On 28 July 2011 16:03, John Casey <jdca...@commonjava.org> wrote: > > > On 7/28/11 10:43 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >> On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: >> >>> The reason why no one committed to Aether beside yourself is partly that >>> it requires to sign some CLA which only unilaterally grants rights (as we >>> can certainly see now!). >> >> Have you read the Sonatype CLA? The contributor keeps retains copyright
[OT] I've just read it now... it seems entirely one-sided.... it is all Contributor grants rights to Sonatype, but it seems to me that there is nothing return... IANAL, but AFAIK such one-sided contracts can become null and void... certainly I have been advised that in Ireland a 1-sided contract cannot be made to stand up in court... I do hope for Sonatype's sake that you have the contract rooted in a jurisdiction that permits 1-sided contracts. [/OT] >> and Sonatype is granted the license. Much the same way the Apache or Eclipse >> CLAs work. We changed that a long time ago when Brett pointed it out. >> Additionally Hervé and Kristian signed the CLA. It's not just Sonatype >> employees. > > So you had to get approval from all contributors before switching to > EPl-only? > I'm curious to hear your answer to this --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
