Re: [PDO] Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO 2: Request for Comments

On 25.01.2008, at 23:58, Steph Fox wrote:
>> b. You are granting to the PDO project permission to use your  
>> contribution for free and you don't expect compensation.
>
> The entire PHP project always worked on that understanding. But  
> would I, without signing a piece of paper, still be able to join the  
> discussions about aspects of PDO design in some conference bar? Or  
> would such discussions be more likely held in a private room between  
> consenting adults, so to speak, with one eye out for industrial spies?
>
>> With a CLA, it's simply spelled out.  This helps to avoid  
>> misunderstandings.
>
> It helps to create an 'us' and a 'them', and we've always managed to  
> avoid this in the past pretty well. This isn't analogous to the  
> situation with the ZF or MySQL, where the company itself is  
> responsible for initiating the project and 'us' and 'them' are part  
> of the deal; it's more that we've always been 'us', and now a 'them'  
> has turned up, abused our system, and is now insisting that we  
> should be reasonable and see things their way.

Thanks Steph, those were two top notch comments there!

regards,
Lukas