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Curious. How would the CLA protect you? Couldn't the same situation occur even if the contributor had signed a CLA.
by graton 5y ago
Curious. How would the CLA protect you?
Couldn't the same situation occur even if the contributor had signed a CLA.
- greenshackle2 5y agoThat is answered in the article: "CLAs shift the legal risk for copyright infringement, patent infringement or other bad acts, intentional or otherwise, from the project (the entity best positioned to defend a legal claim, and often the one most directly benefiting financially), to the contributor"
- graton 5y agoOkay. But still if a person contributes code that is not their code, even if they sign a CLA, and it ends up in the project the project can't say "not our problem they signed a CLA". The project would still need to remove the offending code.
- splix 5y agoIt would give me a leverage and that would be a totally different conversation. Though I understand that if lawyers want to destroy something they can do it regardless the CLA or anything. It's just the game of who spend more money in court.