Code that is pasted from elsewhere

davidread commented 10 years ago

This license says contributors wrote the code, but there are plenty of cases where this doesn't hold. There are bits pasted from websites.

e.g. https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/1251/files#diff-530e98d83857b6bd57795518ad4c2dbdR56

I think people are careful enough to ensure to add the reference and the licenses don't conflict, but can't be certain. I'm no lawyer, but it might be pertinent to admit this. A big company or government client may want assurances.

Find copied code by grepping for attributions/licences and maybe using some sort of tool for unattributed bits.
Ensure these are ok to include and relicense under AGPL
Amend CLA to allow for this practise

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Do we have any sense of how significant this is? my sense would that it was rather limited but may be wrong ...

Also the license says " You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above licence" - it may not always be that you wrote it (though I next paragraph does emphasize that but I think in the context that "if you don't have the rights make sure you have got permission to do this")

rufuspollock commented 8 years ago

@davidread I think this is a useful point re process about how we actually utilize the CLA and do pull request checking. However, don't think it implies any changes to CLA. As such are you happy for this to be closed?

davidread commented 8 years ago

How about we simply have a label for issues with the CLA that are not about the wording instead? I'd hate for these sorts of issues to be lost and forgotten.

rufuspollock commented 8 years ago

@davidread sounds good - please dive in and do that.

davidread commented 8 years ago

Great, done.

ckan / cla

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