[Python-legal-sig] Round 2: Is CLA required to send and accept edits for Python documentation?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:30:02 +1100
Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:31:05 -0500
> > Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does the PSF not have a public justification for its CLA? 
> >
> > I cannot answer for the PSF, despite being a PSF member myself.
> > However, one reasonable rationale for the CLA is that it allows further
> > relicensing, e.g. to a further version of the "PSF license".
> 
> It may be that there's no better rationale for the PSF's CLA requirement
> than “to allow a change of license”.
> 
> However, that rationale implies either that Wikimedia foundation could
> not legally change the license terms for Wikipedia

Well, could it? Has this been seriously studied on legal grounds, or
did everybody just let the Wikimedia foundation get away with it?

Regards

Antoine.