Hi Lars,
please have a look on the subject.

I had a look on github and I found several projects addressing this; e.g:
   https://github.com/clabot/clabot
   https://github.com/datastax/cla-enforcer
   https://www.clahub.com/
   ecc...

What do You suggest?
I think this is probably needed.

Regards
Mauro

Il 18/05/2016 18:31, Les Mikesell ha scritto:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Mauro Condarelli <mc5686 AT mclink DOT it> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>> it occurred to me there may be legal pitfalls (particularly in the States, 
>> but not only) concerning "Intellectual Property" of any contribution.
>>
>> I know several organizations (e.g.: Eclipse) require a declaration from each 
>> contributor stating:
>> 1) he is transferring Copyright of each and all patches to the Project.
>> 2) no other party (i.e.: his employer) has any claim on his contributions.
>> I know because I had to go into some loops to have some contributions 
>> accepted.
>>
>> Should we be concerned?
>> I know *noting* about USA Copyright laws (aside from the fact they're making 
>> many "attorneys" rich).
>> Is there someone knowledgeable here on the list?
>> Should we seek advice? (where? github? FSF?)
>>
>> We should fix this ASAP, before the coder base enlarges.
>>
>> Please give advice.
>
> Since the initial license is GPL v2, the only restriction is that any
> changes/additions must also be GPL or compatible (include source and
> not add additional restrictions).  In some cases projects add a
> requirement to transfer ownership of contributions to the official
> version so that someone would have the authority to change the license
> on future versions if desired - but it may already be too late for
> that.
>


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