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Message-ID: <56EA07C1.8040905@openwall.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:26:25 +0300 From: Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root@...nwall.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Cc: kulakowski@...omium.org, Petr Hosek <phosek@...omium.org> Subject: Re: musl licensing On 2016-03-17 01:50, Petr Hosek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:32 AM Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root@...nwall.com> > wrote: > >> Yeah, this is a crucial question IMHO. There was a similar discussion >> about LLVM licensing recently: >> >> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/thread.html#91536 >> >> From this thread I gathered that: >> 1) Google is quite serious about CLAs; >> 2) Google has ideas about copyright/licensing/etc which contradict >> beliefs held widely in the community; >> 3) Google is not inclined to explain the situation to the community, >> judging by >> >> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091752.html >> >> Given its past legal troubles, Google has enough stimuli to study the >> topic very carefully and it could be right. But could be wrong as well. >> Anyway, I don't think that just saying that CLAs are required is going >> to change the opinion of the community. > > To clarify the CLA bit, we're not asking musl authors to sign the Google > CLA. Instead, what we proposed was coming up with a CLA specifically for > musl. I didn't mean to imply Google CLA. Sorry if it sounded that way. > Since someone, in this case most likely Rich as the project > maintainer, has to re-license the files which are currently in public > domain, one way is to have the past contributors sign a "musl project" CLA > as a way to keep a track of the legal permission to use and distribute > these files. However, this is a decision of the musl community and how you > do the re-licensing is up to you, as long as you have the permission to > re-license the files in question. Thanks for the clarification. Do I understand correctly that you would prefer if musl project used musl CLA but this is not a hard requirement for you? -- Alexander Cherepanov
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