[Fedora-legal-list] Re: [Freeipa-devel] [ALL] How to contribute to FreeIPA

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:23 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>  On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:37 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>  > Simo Sorce wrote:
>  > 
>  > > We have decided to expand on the popular Fedora model and, with the
>  > > community in mind, developed a generic Contributor License Agreement
>  > > (CLA): [link here].  The CLA grants to Red Hat, as the sponsor of the
>  > > project, a license on all code contributed to the project. This
>  > > permits Red Hat to license the code under a FOSS license of its
>  > > choice.  The author of the code continues to hold the copyright in
>  > > that code, and is free to contribute the same code to other projects
>  > > and to license it under whatever terms the author desires.
>  > 
>  > is this over and above the Fedora CLA (which is being looked into for 
>  > simplification) ?
>  
>  As far as I understood it is basically the same CLA that Fedora uses. 
Actually, it's subtly different from our current CLA.  Maybe this is
intended to succeed our current one at some point, but since this
introduction is the first I've seen of this new version, I'm not sure.
I've asked Red Hat Legal to give us some clarification.  I wonder if we
should move this discussion to fedora-legal-list.

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