Hi There was a discussion in identi.ca earlier ( for context, https://identi.ca/conversation/71981654#notice-74661045) with Richard Fontana, Maureen Duffy and others about a few things in the fedoraproject.org website and I am following up here because it seems to be a project level decision. a) Has a prominent splash "A Red Hat Community Project" and it is not clear what means. If it merely means Red Hat is the primary sponsor, that seems redundant with the notice in the bottom. Can this be clarified or removed? b) Has a copyright notice, "Red Hat, Inc and others" and that divides the community into Red Hat vs others. Since Red Hat doesn't have any copyright ownership over Fedora. Why not just (c) Fedora Project contributors ? Also refer to http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2011-June/013474.html I think it is better to remove any such notices or if it is really required, just make it clear that the copyright belongs to the individual Fedora contributors and Red Hat has no particular claim to that. c) FPCA is certainly a much better replacement for the legal agreement than the CLA was but I am not convinced that any type of contributor agreement is required at all and still causes confusion and debates. For example, I don't see why anyone submitting content for the design team under CC-BY-SA has to sign the FPCA as per the warning on top at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_connect_to_the_design_team_sparkleshare. For anything that is copyrightable, a requirement of a explicit license seems to be a better choice. In the case of things like spec files and kickstart files, one could have a copyright notice on each of them similar to what openSUSE and others seem to have done already. The choice of a permissive license such as MIT or the same license as the component if it is a upstream codebase would avoid the necessity to have a "default license". I assumed when it was originally proposed that this was a Red Hat Legal requirement and didn't oppose it when it was originally proposed but I am not sure it is (https://identi.ca/notice/73733284). So, who is driving this and why? Rahul _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board