On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:38:13AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > My emails to a mailing list shouldn't be treated as a "contribution" > under the terms of FPCA. I didn't sign the FPCA so that one could > relicense my emails and distort it as they see fit under CC-BY-SA and > GPL or whatever. This is a problem with a catch all license > agreement. I admit that whether the FPCA can be read to govern emails (that is, the substantive text of the message, to the extent it's copyrightable) to a Fedora mailing list as a 'Contribution' is unclear under the FPCA. It was also unclear under the Fedora CLA, though a little less unclear. There are multiple ways to clarify this issue if people are concerned. No one brought this issue up in what I recall were at least a few months of public availability of the FPCA draft along with a public request for comments. Just out of curiosity, what terms do you see as applying to your emails to Fedora mailing lists? I think if anything the appropriate default 'license' would be CC0, apart from any attachment like a patch or whatever (i.e. something closer to the intuitive notion of a Fedora contribution). - RF _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
