Project Harmony 1.0 and its discontents

The Harmony Project (an effort to create a standardized set of contributor agreements last covered here in April) has launched version 1.0 of its agreements. There is a cute selection tool allowing projects to pick the agreement which best suits their wishes. It's not clear how the agreements have changed since the first public disclosure in April.

Harmony remains controversial; see these responses by Bradley Kuhn, Richard Fontana, and Dave Neary. Quoting Richard: "Despite my admiration, respect and affection for those who have been driving Harmony, I cannot endorse the product of their work. I believe Harmony is unnecessary, confusing, and potentially hazardous to open source and free software development."

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