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

[Matthew Miller]

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.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader