Matthew Miller schrieb: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:17:57PM +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > >> But the wiki is not. And as summit is over no irc contributions. I know >> that I may post emails to most fedora lists, but thats not much. I can >> also do this on every open mailing lists for any proprietary software. >> > > Sign the CLA. > So everybody in the world should sign the CLA and give Red Hat non-exclusive rights to do with the content what they want? I would not use a license if this would be my direction. In fact if we do this with software (do all software developers have signed the CLA?) this would in fact mean that Red Hat has the choice to relicense every bit that is contributed and distribute it proprietary. You mighth say: They will not. But as Red Hat does not trust me as a free man if I do not sign a CLA, why should I trust Red Hat? In my opinion free software and free content should be based on two components: 1) free licenses 2) free communties And they should never ever try to enhance the licenses in order to give one party (in this case Red Hat) more control than anybody else. Also think about that: If I would like to contribute to lets say 50 projects (which may in fact he case on my part) like Apache.org, Wikipedia.org, etc.etc. - does it make sense to sign 50+ license agreements only to give one party more rights than I have? Sorry, but if this point is not going to be changed I rather leave Fedora and rather fight its distribution, because it restricts the rights of its users and goes a path that goes away from the freedom that made free software great. Fedora sees the world from the view of its own organisational problems, but the future of free software should be free contribution. A distributions should be there for the free software, the developers and the users and not the other way round: the users, software and developers must follow the rule oif a distribution. For me it is ok if Fedora REALLY wants to go the path and then I will not bother any more, but I want to make that clear for me of this is what the directions really are going to be. I am involved in many projects and I rather invest my time in real free software projects , then, although I sure would love to hear from somebody that things indeed will change, because so far I like much of Fedora. Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig PfennigSolutions - Wiki-Systeme http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
