On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-05-20 09:04, Richard Fontana wrote: > >Does anyone happen to know when precisely the old Fedora CLA (not the > >current FPCA) began to be used? The presumably ancestral Apache > >Software Foundation Individual CLA was adopted by the ASF on > >2004-06-23, which was in between the release of Fedora Core 2 and > >Fedora Core 3. > > So my understanding is that the CLA was put in place as a requirement of > CVS access during development/merger of Fedora Extras 3 (previous > versions were hosted by the external fedora.us project). You'd think > there would be some big announcement about this somewhere, but I haven't > found it yet. > > At this point there didn't seem to be a procedure in place: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-January/msg00046.html > > An interim procedure arose shortly thereafter, but implies that no > non-RH packagers had CVS access yet: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-February/msg00208.html > > The earliest mentions of the CLA I could find were: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-March/msg00046.html Also, without mentioning the CLA by name: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-March/msg00350.html > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-March/msg00830.html > > The process was already automated the following month: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-April/msg00495.html Very helpful, thank you! Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
