On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > >> > No, sorry, that doesn't parse. >> > We don't need an explanation, we need a *solution*. Nobody cares about >> > explanations when most online projects accept patches and enrole >> > committers freely. >> >> While I agree with you that we need to do this better; don't interpret >> what "other projects do" as "doing it right". > > They definitely do it right from a social perspective. > >
And probably not from a legal perspective. Ask anyone who has tried to relicense a project and attempted to track down old willy nilly contributors, or been forced to got and get CLAs after the fact. I completely agree with you - we have to make this process modern, and simple. We just disagree on if it's necessary or not. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers