I would say that's probably the Intent. If you're trying to pry details out
of LL employees, with full knowledge you never intend to actually
contribute the result, why should LL assist you in that?
However, if you do intend to contribute, discussing the contribution with
the understanding the discussion is contributory, would have no net effect
on outcome. You'd already be contributing what you intend to contribute
later.
LL is simply protecting themselves from the scenario where someone mentions
some idea, and Later LL does something similar, and then said person starts
screaming "LL stole my idea". Because this happens a lot, in all creative
fields (TV, Movies, Music, Games, and software). This just lays it out
clearly: "If you discuss something with us, don't expect us to magically
forget it."
- Dari
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Nicky Perian <nickyper...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The original CLA may have same items and I just did not catch that casual
> verbal / oral conversations unless prefaced with "this is not a
> contribution" would be considered a contribution. For me, that puts a
> chill on discussing with any LL employee the technical feasibility of an
> idea that may or may not become a contribution.
>
>
>
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> *From:* Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <o...@lindenlab.com>
> *To:* opensource-dev <opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 7, 2013 11:34 AM
> *Subject:* [opensource-dev] Draft update to the Contribution Agreement
>
> As most of you probably know, Linden Lab acquired Desura™, a digital
> distribution service for PC gamers.
>
> The code for the Desura client is open source, managed as the Desurium
> project on github <https://github.com/desura/Desurium>. The Desurium
> project used a different open source licenses (GPLv3) than we use for the
> Second Life Viewer project, and had its own Contribution Agreement.
>
> After some discussion with both Second Life and Desurium contributors,
> Linden Lab has produced a draft of a new Contributor License
> Agreement<http://lecs.opensource.secondlife.com/draft-contribution-agreement-2013-10-04.pdf>that
> we would like to use for both projects in the future. This email is
> an invitation to contributors and potential contributors to discuss that
> draft here.
>
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