IRC Announcement
by Nick Bebout
Since its beginnings, the Fedora Project has used the freenode IRC network
for our project communications. Due to a variety of recent changes to that
network, the Fedora Project is moving our IRC communications to Libera.Chat.
If you are a current IRC user, please go and register your nick(s) on
Libera.Chat ( https://libera.chat/guides/registration#registering ) and
rejoin the #fedora related channels you wish to. You can take this
opportunity to choose a new secure password and make sure you are
connecting via SSL. There is good documentation about choosing an IRC
client at https://libera.chat/guides/clients
If you are a Matrix user, we ask for your patience as we get bridges setup
on the new network. If you were joined to rooms via the generic freenode
bridge, you will need to leave them and rejoin the fedora rooms in matrix
(which will be plumbed with the Libera channels)
As of 2021-05-28 our official IRC presence is on irc.libera.chat.
Many Fedora channels have moved over and are ready on Libera.Chat. However,
less-used channels have not be automatically setup. If you need a specific
#fedora-* IRC channel setup, please file a ticket at http://pagure.io/irc
requesting the channel.
New channels should have the same name as they did on freenode. For
example: #fedora, #fedora-admin, #fedora-devel, and #fedora-join.
If you would like a fedora IRC ‘cloak’ you can request it at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiberaCloaks
(an IRC cloak obfuscates your client host address and shows ‘fedora’
instead). Please note that cloaks are not foolproof, there are ways for
people to still get your IP, but they do make it more difficult for people
to obtain your IP.
Also, look for upcoming exciting announcements around Fedora’s Matrix
presence.
nb
2 years, 6 months
Fedora's default license for content is now CC BY-SA 4.0
by Matthew Miller
The Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) [1], which all Fedora
contributors sign, exists to make sure that everything in the project is
licensed in accordance with our “Freedom” value. The FPCA includes a
provision which allows the Council to update the default license for either
“code” or “content”:
The Fedora Council may, by public announcement, subsequently designate an
additional or alternative default license for a given category of
Contribution (a “Later Default License”). A Later Default License shall be
chosen from the appropriate categorical sublist of Acceptable Licenses For
Fedora.
The Fedora Council has approved [2] a change [3] from from the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license to the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license for
material classified as “content”. This message is the official public
announcement of that change, which is effective as of today, the 13th of May
2021.
This license applies to content (not code) submitted to Fedora that does not
have an explicit license attached. The FPCA is not a copyright assignment,
and does not override the explicit license choices of contributors or
upstream projects.
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement
2. https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/355
3. https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/policy-proposal-update-default-co...
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
2 years, 6 months
