why i can not join Canonical's contributor agreement program
It is my personal opinion that Canonical's Contributor Agreement program is, in its current form (as of Sept 2010), flawed such that I can not participate in it due to the risks it brings me and my Free software contributions.
I am making this statement because I was recently asked to sign Canonical's agreement, but I could not. I sent an email of declination today along with the following explanation for my decision:
Normally i would have no problem with doing this, except that the contributor agreement is flawed in a number of ways.
I'll ignore the dubious legality of "signing" the agreement by email, because that's really Canonical's risk, not mine.
However, while I can ignore that oddity, what i can't ignore are the following items in the document:
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