[beyond-licensing] Legal topics that FOSS projects could use more information on

[Deb Nicholson]

Notes from the calls:

First call, http://piratepad.net/Beyond-Licensing-06-13-2016
Second call, http://piratepad.net/Beyond-Licensing-07-19-2016

I'll respond to the rest a little later.
Deb

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:59:30PM -0400, Deb Nicholson wrote:
> > Perhaps, we could disentangle the two potential upsides of copyright
> > assignment; 1) avoiding a bureaucratic nightmare later on and 2)
> > making sure a FOSS codebase stays FOSS, and make recommendations for
> > projects with one or both of those goals?
>
> I realize that you might have already discussed this on a subsequent
> call (BTW, do we have a place where call minutes, or maybe even just
> links to the relevant titanpads, are archived? I find hard to chase the
> links via the mailing list only...).
>
> But FWIW I think Deb's idea here is really good. It's similar in spirit,
> but way better, than the "pros/cons" distinction for CLA/CAA that I
> initially proposed.  People who do want them for reasons other than
> proprietary relicensing see the need of avoiding bureaucratic nightmares
> down the road; people who want to absolutely avoid proprietary
> relicensing are ready to take the risk of such a bureaucratic nightmare
> in exchange of certainty against taking their stuff proprietary. And of
> course there are a bunch of middle grounds (e.g., CLA/CAA with
> guarantees on the choice of license, etc).
>
> What matters here is that the proposed framing might help distilling the
> various arguments, and at the same time clarifying that the most
> relevant "attack vector" to FOSS that is implementable with CLA/CAA is
> proprietary relicensing. That would be rather factual information, and
> would allow readers to weigh their choices accordingly.
>
> Cheers.
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