Hi, To be more specific: - Copyright is granted by law at creation time in most countries. - MIT is a license that works inside the copyright concept. - The copyright is preserved but the only thing the MIT imposes is the condition that authorship is retained whenever someone uses the code. This implies that we need to know all owners of the code so that we can properly mention them. - The reason why we need you to sign a physical copy is that the body that releases the code, is a French institution, and in France only physical signatures count. Itâs law. We know it is not comfortable, but historically we had problems with the legalities of releasing the code as MIT. The current solution was chosen to ensure that we do not run into any legal problems for the long run. Cheers, Doru
On Dec 7, 2015, at 1:40 PM, philippe.back@highoctane.be <philippe.back@gmail.com> wrote:
This ensures the legal thing is no bull and that the rights are indeed MIT. There has been cases of problems and this ensured that lawyers could quickly sort things out.
Phil
On Dec 7, 2015 7:31 PM, "webwarrior" <reg@webwarrior.ws> wrote: It would be logical to make contribution to an open source project easy, right? Well, in bigger projects some burocracy is inevitable, but usually has some valid reasons behind it.
When I made some commits to Spec (while it was on github), it was as easy as fork->commit->create pull request. In Pharo, it's already more complicated: you have to register yourself in SmalltalkHub, in fogbugz, in mailing lists. Slices system is also not very intuitive. Then CI system spits out some completely unrelated errors.
But OK, I understand that Pharo is unlike, and the team maybe doesn't have time to migrate to some integrated bugtracker/repository/whatever.
Then people began asking me of my real name - which is already wierd - why would they need it?
And then someone suggested that I must sign license agreement (which is also wierd - MIT license doesn't demand anything like that).
I looked at that agreeement. It requires you to provide name, address (???), sgin it and send it via snail mail (WTF???).
No, guys, that is beyond good and evil. Either we skip this stupid formality and continue working on the code, or I'm out of this.
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