On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:22:28AM -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 4:27 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 07:11 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:03:08AM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > If the CLA does not mention age, then we have pretty much commented on > > > > the subject as much as we can. > > > > > > this matter turns up quite often, and we should have some standard > > > answer, hopefully in a positive way. Otherwise everyone will have a > > > different dealing with this situation and it will often escalate into > > > f-a-b (which doesn't really resolve this, yet). > > > > > > No, I'm not favouring Fedora Child Labour, I'm demanding it! ;) > > > > Axel: > > > > Yes, this is true. My concern, to be honest, is that if we start asking > > questions of the lawyers, we might get back answers. :) > > > > For example, what if we get back the answer, "If you are under the age > > of 18 in the USA, you need a parent's signature"? Where before we > > didn't have any such rule, now we have a rule *and* an unknown number of > > current contributors might be suddenly out of compliance. > > Is this safer than turning a blind eye to it, and finding out we can > be sued later? I think it would be smarter to ask the lawyers, > knowing full well that we'll need a sane plan if they say no to anyone > under 18 without additional paperwork. It's just one boring chore > that could save our butts down the road. Let's take the middle road: Karsten asks the lawyers, and if the answer is something we don't want to hear he lets the thread silenty die (and maybe PMs so we don't ask again ;). Otherwise he replies to it with good news :) Promoting Fedora Child Labour, now endorsing half-blind man tactics - what else will I mutate into these days ... More seriously I agree with Yaakov, it's better to know where we stand and how we can make sure we are clean. If we need a signature or a proxy we can arrange to get one, at least we will have a formal procedure to point to. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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