Re: [OMPI devel] Contributor License Agreement

2014-08-29 Thread Ralph Castain
Well, as I said, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not about to argue legal issues with you :-) All I can do is reiterate that the lawyers involved (a) felt that this was required as a gateway to providing commit permissions to our repository, (b) that it was separate from the license itself, and (c) th

Re: [OMPI devel] Contributor License Agreement

2014-08-29 Thread Jed Brown
Ralph Castain writes: > I'm not a lawyer, but that agreement was formulated by the lawyers of > several national labs, universities, and corporations back at the very > beginning of the project, and so that's what we have to use. MPICH does the same thing, but the CLA grants permission to redist

Re: [OMPI devel] Contributor License Agreement

2014-08-29 Thread Ralph Castain
I'm not a lawyer, but that agreement was formulated by the lawyers of several national labs, universities, and corporations back at the very beginning of the project, and so that's what we have to use. According to the lawyers, it is indeed compatible. I'll let them argue it :-) On Aug 29, 201

[OMPI devel] Contributor License Agreement

2014-08-29 Thread Jed Brown
Ralph Castain writes: > Indeed, welcome! > > Just to make things smoother: are you planning to contribute your work > back to the community? If so, we'll need a signed contributor > agreement - see here: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/contribute/corporate.php This is an Apache-2.0 CLA, wh