I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bitcoins in advance

Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by icebraining on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:04PM (#9328804)

So you take them to court to get them to follow the license. If you have a CLA you are the copyright holder so you can just do this. If you don't, to make your case you have to round up virtually everyone who has ever contributed to your project because they are copyright holders too.

How so? As long as your code is also being used, you can sue for copyright infringement on your work. I don't see why you need to call up anyone else.

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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by Blackthorn on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:08PM (#9328833)

You can sue for anything you damn well please, that doesn't mean you're going to get anywhere.

I'm not a lawyer and can't explain why things are the way they are. I can only inform you that this is the way things have shaked out in the past.

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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by icebraining on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:19PM (#9328903)

Then can you point out specific cases when that has happened? Because frankly, it doesn't make sense to me, nor is it my recollection, that a copyright infringement suit can only be won if every single holder is part of the accusation.

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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by pgaddict on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:33PM (#9328996)

You're right - you only need an author whose contributions were (supposedly) infringed. Of course, if you have more of them, covering larger amounts of code, that might help.

A prime example is the SFC vs. VMWare lawsuit, where SFC represents a single contributor to Linux Kernel (Christoph Hellwig).

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/

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