Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-11 Thread Ustun Ozgur
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:35:34 PM UTC+3, Sergey Didenko wrote: > > Sorry if that was already answered, > > Is there a possibility to get rid of this legalwall? > > Interestingly, node.js has just done that today: http://www.joyent.com/blog/broadening-node-js-contributions Ustun > -- Y

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-11 Thread Sergey Didenko
I look at it from the psychological point of view. There is a similar design decision in a website world - mandatory login vs relaxed login. For years a lot of webmasters were quite inert to even look at possibility to relax login requirement for core site activities. However in the online shoppi

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Atamert Ölçgen
Excuse my ignorance. But from what I've read, it all seems fair game. Essentially contributors are assigning the same rights they have to project's creator, no? What exactly feels wrong to you? On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Sergey Didenko wrote: > Sorry if that was already answered, > > Is t

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Luc Prefontaine
What about the real world constraints ? As far as I know, everyone needs air, water, heat, and a minimal food ration to survive. The day I cut your air away, I bet you'll be suddenly be very concerned about the 'the physical world' and that you will relinquish the 'digital age' way back in

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Timothy Baldridge
Welcome to the "real world", where programmer ideals are often overridden by the concerns of lawyers. That's what it comes down to, you have to do it this way in the US (and other places) or risk legal issues. https://www.clahub.com/pages/why_cla Timothy On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Sergey

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Sergey Didenko
Sorry if that was already answered, Is there a possibility to get rid of this legalwall? I realize that there are good intents behind the existing practice, but it feels a bit wrong for an open source artifact in the digital age of instant sharing. > Starting today, we have updated the Clojure

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Michael O'Keefe
Thank you for all you do. This is wonderful! -Michael O'Keefe On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 6:49:52 AM UTC-6, Tim Visher wrote: > > (boom) > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Alex Miller > wrote: > > Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement > process. > > The prior proce

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-10 Thread Tim Visher
(boom) On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Alex Miller wrote: > Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement process. > The prior process which involved signing and mailing a form has been > replaced with an online e-signing process. > > Existing contributors that have signed the

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-09 Thread Andrey Antukh
Very nice! \o/ 2014-06-09 20:57 GMT+02:00 Plínio Balduino : > \o/ > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Michael Klishin > wrote: > > 2014-06-09 21:23 GMT+04:00 Alex Miller : > > > >> Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement > process. > >> The prior process which involved

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-09 Thread Plínio Balduino
\o/ On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Michael Klishin wrote: > 2014-06-09 21:23 GMT+04:00 Alex Miller : > >> Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement process. >> The prior process which involved signing and mailing a form has been >> replaced with an online e-signing proces

Re: Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-09 Thread Michael Klishin
2014-06-09 21:23 GMT+04:00 Alex Miller : > Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement process. > The prior process which involved signing and mailing a form has been > replaced with an online e-signing process. \o/ -- MK http://github.com/michaelklishin http://twitter.co

Clojure Contributor Agreement process update

2014-06-09 Thread Alex Miller
Starting today, we have updated the Clojure Contributor Agreement process. The prior process which involved signing and mailing a form has been replaced with an online e-signing process. Existing contributors that have signed the Contributor Agreement are unaffected - those agreements are still in