Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

In that context, it's also worth noting that none of the bureaucracy being proposed would have helped with the SCO case; in the SCO case, the submitter of the code thought that they had the right to do so, and could have passed any bureaucratic hurdle, because the core of the SCO case was that SCO thought that IBM did not have rights that IBM thought it had.

But, because something bad had happened (the SCO case), people wanted to do something to stop it happening again. And Linus was fending off the "this is something, ergo we must do it, because we must do something to stop a repeat".

However, note that the Google CLA could, instead of giving Google an unrestricted patent and copyright licence, merely require you to assert that you have permission to grant those licences, and require that you license the code to Google under the same terms that the Google-owned project already uses; that it's one-way (and - for example - permits Google to sue you for infringing its patents, while allowing Google to lean on the CLA for permission to use yours) is something that often means that lawyers have to get involved if people outside Google are going to contribute (I'd have to get a lawyer involved with every contribution, for example, so that they're happy that Google can't argue that my contribution gives Google a licence to hardware patents not relevant to my contribution, which would be unnecessary if the grant was scoped down to the licence of the project I contributed to).