[Python-legal-sig] Is CLA required to send and accept edits for Python documentation?

[David Mertz]

ALL changes to code or documentation distributed by the PSF require a CLA.
we do not and cannot draw some line between 'big' and 'small' changes to
skip CLA for some.
On Jul 25, 2013 1:25 AM, "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 1, 2013, at 8:44 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Wikipedia doesn't require to sign up a CLA to edit pages. Is CLA
> required to send and accept edits for Python documentation? Why?
> >
> > We are not Wikipedia.
> >
> > Documentation is shipped with Python, it contains code examples/etc
> which are relevant to the code itself and therefore larger changes (just
> like code patches) require the ability for redistribution and licensing
> downstream to other vendors such as ActiveState, RedHat and others.
>
> Thank for the explanation. Translating your language to simple form,
> minor edits can go without CLA. Am I right?
>
> Then another question. What conditions should documentation edit in
> the form of patch satisfy to qualify as a "larger change"?
> Ideally, I'd like to see this automatically computable.
> --
> anatoly t.
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