[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

Pamela Chestek pamela at chesteklegal.com
Sat May 18 03:42:36 UTC 2019


On 5/17/19 11:29 AM, Sebastian Ainslie wrote:
> The reason for the added paragraph is the ability to accept contributions automatically without having to do a written and signed CLA for each one separately IF licensee wants to contribute back to the Lab. Tracking each contribution would be unmanageable across the Lab as we have so many projects on the go and neither the people nor resources to manage this licensing aspect. 
I'm not following this reasoning. The language accomplishes that whether
or not it is approved as an open source license.

Pam


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