<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi,<br>I have no legal questions. It was just interesting to me how an act of higher order (the Law) constrains something to 50 years, and an act of lower order (a Contract) repeals the constraint.<br>Regards<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/7/10, Máirín Duffy <i><mairin@linuxgrrl.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Máirín Duffy <mairin@linuxgrrl.com><br>Subject: Re: [Design-team] CLA<br>To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org><br>Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 6:43 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 22:33 -0800, Hristo Petkov wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> I found this Contribution License Agreement, but I have a question:<br>> <br>> What does 'perpetual' mean. In most of the countries the copyright<br>>
licenses are for 50 years or so.<br>> Just in 10 years the computer will most probably walk around you in<br>> your house saying 'Yes master' and 'As you wish' and none of today's<br>> software will go on it. Anyway.<br>> <br>> There is no button to sign the CLA. Pls. advise.<br><br>If you have a wiki account you've already clicked through and agreed to<br>the CLA by creating an account. See this for more details:<br><br><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/CLAAcceptanceHierarchies" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/CLAAcceptanceHierarchies</a><br><br>This list isn't really the place to pose questions about the CLA if you<br>have concerns about it though (although you should have asked those<br>before agreeing to it.)<br><br>The CLA is managed by the legal team; if you have questins about it I<br>would advise you to follow the following advice from the Legal wiki<br>page:<br><br>If you have any legal questions
that can be discussed in public, post to<br>fedora-legal-list . If you have any private legal questions send a mail<br>to legal AT fedoraproject.org. This is taken care of by TomCallaway<br><br>~m<br> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>design-team mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="/mc/compose?to=design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org">design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>