[CentOS-devel] CentOS CLA (Contributor License Agreement)

Mon Jun 29 13:14:09 UTC 2015
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 06/29/2015 07:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:30:58AM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> As it seems FAS (Fedora Account Ssytem) has been chosen as the central
>> authentication system for CentOS.org infra, I'm now trying to find
>> documentation around it ..
>> One thing that I see is the CLA (default in Fedora, that each user
>> must sign and agree with) so that means that for FAS we also need to
>> have one.
> 
> Note that the Fedora Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") is obsolete
> and replaced by the "Fedora Project Contributor Agreement" ("FPCA") in
> 2011 - although we do still use the string "cla" in places for
> historical reasons.
> 
> The FPCA is *not* a copyright assignment. It's basically just a promise
> that all contributions are acceptably licensed.


Apart from the legalese... We can probably use the majority of the FPCA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement#FPCA_Text
for our purposes.

It's a bit too restrictive in some areas, but we can make some
adjustments as needed.

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