Update: I got conceptual ok from our legal.
- Pasha

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Fair point; everyone needs to look at this and decide a) if that's ok, or
> b) if we want to change it to incorporate clause #3.
>
>
> > On Oct 12, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Pavel Shamis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think one of the main add-ons of the CLA over BSD-3 license was the
> clause #3 (Grant of Patent License). As far as I can tell it does not
> appear in the new sign-off-CLA.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 12, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Pavel Shamis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > You mentioned that such a change will block contributions.  Did you
> mean only temporarily, while individual Contributor/Member organization
> legal departments are reviewing the new terms?  If so, that one-time "cost"
> may be acceptable, since the goal of the new terms are designed to put us
> in a better place, long-term.
> > >
> > > I hope this will be a temporary freeze, unless legal folks will have
> some other concerns. This is a substantial change since you modify exiting
> terms and conditions (as I read it).
> >
> > Not sure what you mean: the license under which Open MPI is distributed
> is still the same.
> >
> > What terms and conditions are you referring to, specifically?
> >
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