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. Stephen, I'm fairly confident that you're absolutely incorrect about what the CLA entails. However, rather than add one more non-lawyer-opinion into the mix I've asked if we can get a comment from legal about this. thanks, -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
