Contributor agreement

Stefan Monnier monnier at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jan 28 15:37:18 GMT 2010


>> >   * MAJOR ISSUE: This requirement is open to abuse, as anyone could
>> >     send such an email with my name in it without my knowledge and it
>> >     is easy to falsify sender's addresses in email as huge amounts of
>> >     spam can prove.
>> 
>> As Karl(?) mentioned, if a miscreant forges mail purporting to be from
>> you, you obviously are not accountable for what they say.

> No, but Canonical won't pay my legal fees, court costs, and any
> incidental costs of proving I sent no such mail.  And I personally
> would have great difficulty proving that, since I don't habitually
> sign my email.

But this issue exists regardless of whether you ever get even close to
signing such an agreement.  It could happen even if you've never heard
of this agreement and its clauses.

So if there is a problem, it's in the legal system, which should
hopefully lay the burden on Canonical to show that they really did get
a valid agreement from you, rather than lay the burden on you to show
that you did not sign any such agreement.


        Stefan




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