On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:33 +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > 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? Please read the CLA. Section 2, the Contributor Grant of License, is a grant to both Red Hat and to _every_ Fedora user. It states that you are making your works available to the above-mentioned parties in perpetuity, and that you have the right to do so (patent and otherwise). It does _not_ specify the license under which you do so, merely that it must have the properties of allowing derivative works, public display and performance, and distribution; Red Hat, and the Fedora Project, must still respect the license of the work being contributed. Neither is it a statement of assignment of copyright. It's really just a statement of good faith, written in the same reciprocal spirit as GPLv2, and it explicitly does not grant Red Hat any special exclusive powers. I appreciate your caution in legal matters, but you're attributing properties to the CLA that just aren't there. - ajax -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
