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[Maxime Chambreuil <maxime.chambreuil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for a contributor agreement for OpenERP Foundation. 
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Maxime Chambreuil 


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Hi Fabien, 

thank you again for your effort to display your commitment to free and 

There is already such a section in the FLA to this purpose [1], which states 

KDE e.V. shall only exercise the granted rights and licences in 
accordance with the principles 
of Free Software as allowed under the text of the charter of KDE e.V., 
version of September 
26, 2006. [...] In the event KDE e.V. violates the principles of Free 
Software, all granted rights and licences 
shall automatically return to the Beneficiary and the licences granted 
hereunder shall be terminated 
and expire. 

Having a contributor agreement with such a clause would sufficiently 
warrant your commitment to open source for us to sign over the copyright 
on our contributions to the framework and official modules to OpenERP SA. 

This does not mean that we now waive the idea of a membership foundation 
to promote and protect the OpenERP products. Setting it up means that 
the issues which you mention need to be dealt with (legal status, 
membership terms, etc.), but such a foundation would be another 
instrument to establish sustainable collaboration in the OpenERP 
ecosystem. We will leave it as a wishlist item for now. 

To the people who vented a lack of trust in OpenERP SA in this thread: 
It would be constructive if you could see a contributor agreement as a 
way for OpenERP SA to commit themselves to open source and try to regain 
your trust. Would such an agreement need to state additional terms and 
conditions to satisfy your concerns? 

On behalf of Therp, 
Stefan Rijnhart 

[1] http://ev.kde.org/resources/FLA-generic.pdf, section 3 paragraph 3.