On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:49 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > [...] (having to sign the Fedora CLA [...] > > speaking about CLA (and putting aside the fact that it is > _yet_another_ document to read instead of real work), I have to > witness that I have had problems signing it. > > To quote from it: > > 2. [...] You hereby grant [...] to recipients of software distributed by the > Project: > (a) a [...] copyright license to [...] prepare derivative works of, > [...], sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such > derivative works; > > So it seems that if I write some code and submit it to Fedora, and if > X then downloads Fedora with this code, then X has full rights to > create a derivative work and distribute it under a non-free license. > > IOW, if I push something to Fedora, I'm effectively giving up my > rights to the code. The fact that the whole project is licensed > under, say, GPL is not relevant for new contributions. That is absolutely incorrect. The CLA does not supersede the licensing of your code. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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