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

Mon Jun 29 13:17:14 UTC 2015
Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com>

On 06/29/2015 06:44 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>
> 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 Note that the Fedora Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") is obsolete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.
>
+1. Tweaking FPCA for CentOS should just work fine for the 
project/community.

-Lala