On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:25 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:30:41 -0500 > Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In that case I'm not sure the author ought to get credit for the PR. They > > can file a bug pointing out the typo and someone else can submit a fix. > > > > That sounds like a reasonable solution to me; even for more substantial > > issues (if signing the CLA is a genuine issue). I think there are a fair > > number of individuals out there who just want to fix something and aren't > > concerned with attributions or long-term contributions; they just want to > > fix the issue for themselves or perhaps for altruistic reasons. > > I'd like to point out that the relevant perspective here isn't PSF > policy as much as copyright law. Something as trivial as a typo fix > for sure isn't copyrightable, so there's no point in requiring a CLA > for it. For more involved changes, things are less clear, and a court > would be the final authority; but that's admittedly an argument for > erring on the side of caution and requiring a CLA for *any* non-trivial > change. >
I don't think anyone disputes that the CLA is needed for any non-trivial change. The question is, what constitutes a non-trivial change? Is it subjective? What's the smallest copyrightable edit (which may or may not be related to the smallest copyrightable piece of text)? Does it depend on context - is fixing a link more trivial than fixing a piece of English? It'd be great to get a lawyer's firm stance on this. On the PEPs repo, I've merged a good few simple PRs, and don't want to be putting the PSF into legal trouble. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KNX3ZIQKABBNH6LXEWZ765UKVDR7C3CT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
