Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> writes: > Indeed, welcome! > > Just to make things smoother: are you planning to contribute your work > back to the community? If so, we'll need a signed contributor > agreement - see here: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/contribute/corporate.php
This is an Apache-2.0 CLA, which has a patent indemnification clause. Why is this used even though Open MPI is distributed under 3-clause BSD, an incompatible license. (You can include BSD-3 software in an Apache-2.0 distribution, but not vice-versa due to the patent indemnification clause.) http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html FWIW, I think a DCO provides more accurate provenance and I agree with Bradley Kuhn's arguments that CLAs raise the barrier for entry and are unnecessary. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/07/07/harmony-harmful.html
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