On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 02:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Other distributions seems to get along just fine without a FPCA type > agreement. Canonical has a disastrously bad CLA but openSUSE, > Mandriva, Mageia etc seem to have no contributor agreements afaik. I > am leaving out non corporate affliated distros as I assume they aren't > in the same position. I wouldn't be comfortable citing Mandriva as a good precedent here...to be frank, having worked for both MDV and Red Hat, my personal take is that RH is a far better-managed company. At least while I was there, MDV had a rather lackadaisical approach to a lot of things, especially legal issues. It used to have no licensing policy worth the name at all, until I introduced one based entirely on Fedora's. It's shipped MP3 decoding - in a product with commercial variants that are sold to the United States - for years, on no safer legal ground than 'well, Fraunhofer didn't sue us yet'. It contained quite a few packages with files that were not redistributable (e.g. Microsoft-owned fonts and DLLs) for a long time, until I went through and weeded out most of them. In short, Red Hat / Fedora copying Mandriva's approach to legal responsibilities would be precisely the wrong way around, at least IMO =) I don't know much about SUSE, so can't comment there. Mageia, so far, is not corporate-affiliated. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
