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

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:53:31AM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/29/2015 09:33 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> A bit of both. We may need some unlicensed contributions so something
> like "if you submit code you wrote without a license, the default distro
> license of GPLv2 applies"  or something.

Not specifying a license means it's proprietary and if you were to use 'public
domain', it cannot be used in some countries such as France.

All what the FPCA does is saying: if you do not put a license on your work
yourself, the MIT license will apply to it.


Pierre