FW: [OWF Drafting] Continuing OWFa

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Lawrence Rosen

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Jan 30, 2010, 2:58:06 PM1/30/10

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Copying below an email I sent to the Legal Drafting committee this morning. /Larry

From: open-web-le...@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-web-le...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence Rosen
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:53 AM
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Subject: [OWF Drafting] Continuing OWFa

To: OWF Legal-Drafting:

At yesterday's board meeting there was only hurried discussion of the draft CLAs. [1]

I interjected that a CLA is effectively the same as an OWFa signed 45 days after every contribution was made. Procedurally, that would be a silly thing to require. But I'm attaching a possible solution that wouldn't be a procedural nightmare, namely a "Continuing OWFa" that automatically applies anew every time a contribution is made.

This is my redline of our existing OWFa 0.9, http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcaZZ8cdn26HZGQ5NDdncndfMGd6Mjdwc2Rn&hl=en, that is a "Continuing OWFa".

Only a few changes were needed, so we needn't argue about all the stuff we already agreed upon in the OWFa. The few changes I did make were taken (almost) verbatim from David's draft CLAs.

Your thoughts?

/Larry

[1] David's other drafts are at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZ4uaqvCJ6SIZGNoY3ByanRfMTBmaDRiOWZoaw&hl=en and