On 09/05/2014 04:27 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
Here's my reasoning: - CCLAs are mostly signed by corporate lawyers, like me. - Corporate lawyers, like me, like to print out and examine documents before signing them. Or at least ook at them in a window that can be properly resized/zoomed (unlike the awful, user-unfriendly Adobe widget.) - Careful corporate lawyers *particularly* like to print out and examine documents that are derived from other documents (ahem, Apache CLA), so that they can compare them carefully to the original/source document.
Totally understood, in fact these requests are not uncommon. My reasoning is that I prefer to engage with corporate lawyers immediately before they go off on their own. Since we receive few requests, I prefer to know who is interested in signing it and help them out, with the CCLA and all the other complex things related to OpenStack. Probably I should make it more accessible by providing a request form, that would make it less cumbersome for counsels. Would that help?
Additionally, I *assume* (but can't test!) that the completed document can be downloaded; if that's not the case, you should fix that, since being able to retain a copy for your own records is a requirement for a valid contract in some jurisdictions (arguably including California).
Yes, the signed agreement can be downloaded. .stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org