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Hi!
"Henrik" == Henrik Ingo
writes:
Henrik> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Michael Widenius
> "Henrik" == Henrik Ingo
writes: Henrik> Hi all Henrik> As Monty blogged some time ago Henrik> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/08/thoughts-about-dual-licensing-open.ht... Henrik> ...we want to add a promise to our MariaDB contributors signing the Henrik> MCA, that we will not use their contributions to restrict other Henrik> licensees ability to contribute to Open Source.
Henrik> This text has now been approved by a lawyer. The question is, is it Henrik> understandable?
<cut> Henrik> We got some feedback and 100% indicated it wasn't really understandable. The same was more or less said of the new text... (See Larry's response) Henrik> My current idea is to remove the "as a special note" part, but keep it Henrik> as is until then. Ie legally this should be ok as it was approved by Henrik> lawyer. Henrik> The problem is that nobody understands what it is about. Here I was Henrik> thinking we should write a non-legal introduction that explains why on Henrik> earth we have this promise. It could also link to your blog, which Henrik> should explain a lot. Then have the actual legal promise after the Henrik> non-legal intro. I've seen for instance the Red Hat patent promise Henrik> does this, and seems to work. That sounds like a good idea. Henrik> I then of course have not had time to write the intro. (I don't mind Henrik> if someone else does it, as long as the legal text is as above, minus Henrik> the last paragraph.) I would however like to know what problems the lawyer had with my paragraph. Henrik> Last step is to link from MCA, and MCA FAQ, to the intro+promise, Henrik> which should be one separate page. Regards, Monty