Contributor License Agreement
I might be interested in contributing to the effort, but I find the Contributor License Agreement to be an odd choice. MuseScore itself is licensed under GPL, but the CLA is not a GPL license.
I can understand the need to have some flexibility going forward, since the future is seldom clear, and it may make no practical difference, but it seams there are a lot of off the shelf established open source licenses that would be better received by potential contributors than the current CLA. e.g. Apache, Mozilla, MIT, LGPL, etc.
Thoughts anyone?
Comments
You might want to search the archives of the developers' mailing list for discussions of why this was put into place. My recollection / understanding is that it was to make sure it would be possible to release iOS apps based on this source, but you'd have to dig out those discussions to see the details.
Hey dougl,
You can find the history behind the installation of the CLA in the developer mailing list:
http://dev-list.musescore.org/MuseScore-to-mobile-td6232012.html
Important to read is the MuseScore license policy: http://musescore.org/en/about/license-policy
Also one needs to understand the difference between the distribution license and the contributor license agreement. They are not one and the same. See for example http://www.apache.org/licenses/
If you have more questions, feel free to ask.