Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:30AM from the no-sir-I-don't-like-it dept.

sfcrazy writes "The controversy over Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) has once again surfaced. While Matthew Garrett raises valid points about the flaws in Canonical's CLAs, Linus Torvalds says 'To be fair, people just like hating on Canonical. The FSF and Apache Foundation CLA's are pretty much equally broken. And they may not be broken because of any relicencing, but because the copyright assignment paperwork ends up basically killing the community. Basically, with a CLA, you don't get the kind of "long tail" that the kernel has of random drive-by patches. And since that's how lots of people try the waters, any CLA at all – changing the license or not – is fundamentally broken.'"

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Re:Spell it out the first time by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-20 18:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Because they hope your interest will fuel the very slightest bit of initiative, like the ~5 seconds it takes to Google it?
Don't be a cunt. The first search result for CLA is conjugated linoleic acids. The second is a type of four-dour coupe from Mercedez-Benz. After that is Collegiate Learning Assessment and California Library Association.