On Mon, 26 May 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > Just doing some thinking ... > > If we want to move our OpenID acceptance outside of Fedora's OpenID > server, we'll have a blocker with the CLA. AIUI, we need someone to > knowingly accept the CLA and have that tied to a Real Name and email > address in our database. Right? > Correct. > However, OpenID could be a good way to get permissions to Talk: pages. > That is a great way to get feedback from drive-bys, the kind of people > who might take advantage of an OpenID to make a minor change on a > page. > <nod> I looked briefly into this but haven't totally come to a solution yet. > Content in Talk: could be treated procedurally as we do bug reports. > Maybe we can have a WikiLicense type of thing (FedoraProject:Copyrights > link enough?) for that? Either way, Talk: could be a discussion area, > cf. mailing lists and bugzilla, that may produce content. If someone > gives specific wording and we want to use it, and now or later modify > it, redistribute it, etc., it needs to be under the CLA and site > license. This is comparable to receiving a patch via bugzilla where the > contributor should include licensing text. > Yeah, this is both a question for legal and a question to see what is technically feasible. OpenID is great, but once again the CLA continues to be the biggest blocker to growing our contributor base. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
