I was trying to point at the new project contributor agreement (FPCA), can mainly find Richard's article on the topic[0] and the draft[1]. So I was going to ask what the status was, then I read this ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Licenses#The_Contributor_License_Agreement The purpose of the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is to establish copyright control under Red Hat, Inc. on behalf of the Fedora Project. By having a single entity hold copyright: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It goes on to summarize several points that sound inaccurate to me (I'm not sure our CLA allows us to relicense, I believe we sub-license, and it's a bit sketchy and not worth cheering about IMHO; second point seems sketchy, I don't see how the CLA stops someone from suing anyone, it just makes Red Hat a big target; third point seems accurate but a bit rough.) Regardless, the first paragraph is wildly inaccurate with both the CLA and the intention of the Fedora Project, not even to mention the intention of Red Hat. Is this something that needs correcting? Can someone with editing auth do it? Not sure how long that sentence has been there[1], but it may explain why people think Fedora and Red Hat are trying to get copyright assignment. cheers - Karsten [1] It looks like it came with the import from the MoinMoin wiki in May 2008; this diff shows the import on the left and the last revision on the right, and there has been no change to the section in question: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Legal%3ALicenses&diff=137252&oldid=27879 -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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