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