[Libre-soc-org] [Bug 1208] create contributor license agreement

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208

--- Comment #5 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
(In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #4)

> it needs to be OR, not AND, because having *the license* be A OR B means any
> contributors must license under each and every license for *all* licenses
> listed in order to satisfy the whole OR expression (allow downstream users
> to be the ones that pick which license(s) to follow).

that's a horribly confusing a definition of OR.
not a good idea.

plus... actually, yes if someone then makes a derivative work and
gets confused, we have a problem.

> if it were AND, that
> would instead restrict *users* meaning anyone using any of our code would
> have to follow all stipulations of all licenses *combined*, which
> realistically means they have major problems since some of those licenses
> have contradicting clauses such as GPL vs. GFDL:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/04/msg00258.html

documentation is different from source code so it would be mutex-either-or.

> the contributor license agreement would say contributors have to agree to
> license under the *combined license expression*:
> LGPL-3.0+ OR GPL-2.0 OR ...

use of SPDX is not helping here given the "re-definition" of the meaning of
"OR". needs more thought.

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