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Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

机译:贡献者协议被认为有害

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I have a little list (they never will be missed) of stupid things that open-source projects should stop doing. High on this list are CLAs (Contributor License Agreements) and their cousin the mandatory CA (Copyright Assignment). In this article, I explain why CLAs and CAs are bad ideas and what we ought to be doing instead. In obedience to custom, at this point I issue the ritual disclaimer “I am not a lawyer”, but one does not have to be a lawyer to understand the law and game out the ways CLAs and CAs fail to achieve their intended purpose. And, I have researched these failure modes with both lawyers and executives that have literally billions of dollars at stake around IP violations. I’ve made a distinction between CAs and CLAs; we can make a further one between ICLAs (Individual Contributor License Agreements) and CCLAs (Corporate Contributor License Agreements). While all are about equally useless, they have slightly differing failure modes. First, let’s consider the ICLA. Some projects require that you sign one before being allowed to submit changes to their repository. Typically, it requires you to assert that (a) you affirmatively choose to license your contributions to the project, and (b) you have the right to do that.
机译:我列出了一些开源项目应该停止做的愚蠢的事情(永远不会错过)。在此列表的最前面是CLA(贡献者许可协议)及其堂兄(强制性CA)(版权转让)。在本文中,我解释了为什么CLA和CA都是不好的主意,以及我们应该怎么做。为了遵守习惯,在这一点上,我发布了仪式性免责声明“我不是律师”,但是不必非要成为一名律师就可以理解法律并排除CLA和CA无法达到其预期目的的方式。而且,我已经与律师和高管一起研究了这些失败模式,而这些失败模式实际上涉及与知识产权侵权相关的数十亿美元。我对CA和CLA进行了区分;我们可以在ICLA(个人贡献者许可协议)和CCLA(企业贡献者许可协议)之间再做一个。尽管所有这些都几乎无用,但是它们的故障模式略有不同。首先,让我们考虑一下ICLA。有些项目要求您先签名,然后才能将更改提交到其存储库。通常,它要求您声明(a)您肯定选择许可对项目的贡献,并且(b)您有权这样做。

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    《Linux Journal》 |2019年第299期|133-139|共7页
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    Eric S. Raymond;

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