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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On 2013-07-25 15:57, David Mertz wrote:
> 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.

We routinely do, though.

Regards

Antoine.



> 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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