On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
It *is* a somewhat imposing 'wall-o-text' in legalese, and the FAQs on the wiki page call out the conversion from the old agreement to the new one, not necessarily common scenarios for acceptable code. (I'm looking at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement, is there a *better* version to read? )
I've drafted a reformatting of the FAQ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_talk:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement and I'll see if Legal will accept that. Hopefully that'll help a bit.
Under section 1 of the FPCA, as long as there is some authorization from the copyright holder, this would be okay. (Our list of approved open source / free software licenses is explicitly given as one form of authorization, but not necessarily the only one.)
In theory, yes however from an outsider's perspective this is rarely if ever used. The nvidia drivers being the primary example of something users would rejoice over.
Yeah, it's just out of scope -- my point is only that it's not the FPCA that constrains this.