[OpenAFS] On contributor agreements

Matt Benjamin matt@linuxbox.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:07:27 -0400


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This assessment seems pretty sound.  It's still the case that some
contributors have preferred to contribute under BSD terms, and might
continue to do so.  Do we have a mechanism in place to know under what
terms a specific non-founding contribution has been made?

Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>
> While I personally would like to see it easier to relicense the
> codebase to BSD, I believe this is not realistic as it would
> require all contributors to agree or have their contributions
> discarded and reimplemented... and more importantly I don't think
> there's much danger of IBM's lawyers vetting and agreeing to it.
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