[Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Please, consider reflecting on the Canonical Contributor Agreement

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Fri Jan 2 18:40:44 UTC 2015


On 2015-01-02 01:37 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2015-01-02 13:37, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Fact is it's causing external groups to stay away from contributing to
>> Canonical  projects (which contributes to the tautology that the CLA is
>> reasonable because Canonical is the primary/sole contributor).  If you want a
>> specific example, the CLA is the only reason SDDM is the KDM replacement in
>> Plasma 5 and not LightDM.
> 
> And the reason why an annoying refresh bug on Nvidia hardware is not yet fixed
> in compiz. (It's much much harder to sign a CLA when legal departments are
> involved.)
> 

It's fixed now:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/1:0.9.12.0+15.04.20141210.2-0ubuntu1

Marc.





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