> On Feb 1, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > For me, the reason to collect PII and sign the PDF is to convince ourselves > independent of anyone else that there is a real human being on the other end > of that keyboard. With legal rights that can be granted to Apache.
Umm, neither is sufficient (that's what notaries are for), nor is that the purpose. The purpose of the ICLA is to provide a paper trail that would convince a mean lawyer not to send a subpoena to each and every contributor. We don't need real signatures because the license is not a copyright assignment. All we really need is a self-created account with a self-supplied form answer stating that the account user agrees to the ICLA, after which that account can be given write access to one or more repositories. It does not need to be any more paper-like than what Google uses for YouTube, what Amazon uses for AWS, etc. ....Roy
