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

Mon Jun 29 15:54:44 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 29/06/15 16:02, Haïkel wrote:
> 2015-06-29 16:33 GMT+02:00 Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>:
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 08:14:09AM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>> It's a bit too restrictive in some areas, but we can make some
>>> adjustments as needed.
>>
>> I'm curious which areas you find too restrictive. The list of
>> acceptable open source / free software licenses? Or, you need to be
>> able to accept unlicensed contributions? (Note that the list includes a
>> number of very unrestrictive licenses, including CC0 and WTFPL (or NLPL
>> if you prefer.)
>>
>> While not _necessary_, it'd be nice to have basically unified
>> policies here — maybe even to the point where one agreement might cover
>> both CentOS and Fedora contributions.
>>
> 
> +2
> This would lower the barrier entry between the two projects for contributors.
> FPCA is very liberal and should not conflict with CentOS goals which are
> indeed different from Fedora.
> 


that would indeed be an interesting place. Our focus is purely on the
legal aspect of things, and the ability to redistribute. We dont mind
too much w.r.t licenses, or even open completely ( in that we welcome
binary blobs and/or pre-done partial builds as are common placed in the
java world. )

So, what would be a good place to start from ?

For now though, lets just use the turned-off CLA part for the Fas bringup.



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