wrong question (maybe?)

Posted Apr 3, 2014 18:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: wrong question (maybe?) by dberlin
Parent article: The most powerful contributor agreement

> The truth is the number of projects that live in a world where all you get asked to do is "remove the offending code" is pretty small.

that's not the argument.

The argument is that having an agreement doesn't prevent those other cases.

Even if you have a patent license, that doesn't make it so someone can't sue you over the patent, just that you have reason to believe that you can dismiss the lawsuit.

Remember the 3 requirements

1. Asserting the the contributor has the right to contribute the code

2. Asserting that the code is being contributed.

3. Consent that the code can be distributed under the project license.

While it is possible to claim that this doesn't give you the right to actually run the code, that seems like quite a stretch. I don't see how anyone signing this would have reasonable grounds to sue over patents or anything else.