Typo in Fedora CLA

[Christoph Wurm]

Dear Website Maintainers,

apparently there are very few people who actually read the Fedora
Contributor License Agreement. (
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/cla/)
There is a typing error in point five misspelling "patents" as "atents".
Quite embarrassing for a legal agreement, but it should be easy to fix.

Best Regards,

Christoph Wurm (legate)

[Craig Thomas]

2009/1/24 Christoph Wurm :
> Dear Website Maintainers,
>
> apparently there are very few people who actually read the Fedora
> Contributor License Agreement.
> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/cla/)
> There is a typing error in point five misspelling "patents" as "atents".
> Quite embarrassing for a legal agreement, but it should be easy to fix.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Christoph Wurm (legate)

Thank you for the close reading. We will get this fixed.

--
Craig Thomas

[Craig Thomas]

2009/1/24 Christoph Wurm :
> Dear Website Maintainers,
>
> apparently there are very few people who actually read the Fedora
> Contributor License Agreement.
> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/cla/)
> There is a typing error in point five misspelling "patents" as "atents".
> Quite embarrassing for a legal agreement, but it should be easy to fix.

Who here has access to the FAS git repo?

diff --git a/fas/templates/cla/cla.html b/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
index 865f586..e0269d9 100644
--- a/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
+++ b/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above
license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that
you create that includes your Contributions, you represent that you
have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that
employer, that your employer has waived such rights for your
Contributions to the Project, or that your employer has executed a
separate Corporate CLA with the Project.
     </li>
     <li>
-    You represent that each of your Contributions is your original
creation (see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others).  You
represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete
details of any third-party license or other restriction (including,
but not limited to, related copyright, atents and trademarks) of which
you are personally aware and which are associated with any part of
your Contribution.
+    You represent that each of your Contributions is your original
creation (see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others).  You
represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete
details of any third-party license or other restriction (including,
but not limited to, related copyright, patents and trademarks) of
which you are personally aware and which are associated with any part
of your Contribution.
     </li>
     <li>
     You are not expected to provide support for your Contributions,
except to the extent you desire to provide support. You may provide
support for free, for a fee, or not at all. Your Contributions are
provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any
warranties or conditions of NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
diff --git a/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt b/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
index 37f7caf..1439d80 100644
--- a/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
+++ b/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ ${person.postal_address}
        You represent that your Contribution submission(s) include
        complete details of any third-party license or other
        restriction (including, but not limited to, related copyright,
-       atents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and
+       patents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and
        which are associated with any part of your Contribution.

6. You are not expected to provide support for your Contributions,

[Darren VanBuren]

On 1/24/2009 8:11 AM, Craig Thomas wrote:
> 2009/1/24 Christoph Wurm:
> > Dear Website Maintainers,
> >
> > apparently there are very few people who actually read the Fedora
> > Contributor License Agreement.
> > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/cla/)
> > There is a typing error in point five misspelling "patents" as "atents".
> > Quite embarrassing for a legal agreement, but it should be easy to fix.
>
> Who here has access to the FAS git repo?
>
> diff --git a/fas/templates/cla/cla.html b/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
> index 865f586..e0269d9 100644
> --- a/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
> +++ b/fas/templates/cla/cla.html
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
>       You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above
> license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that
> you create that includes your Contributions, you represent that you
> have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that
> employer, that your employer has waived such rights for your
> Contributions to the Project, or that your employer has executed a
> separate Corporate CLA with the Project.
>       </li>
>       <li>
> You represent that each of your Contributions is your original
>
> creation (see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others).  You
> represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete
> details of any third-party license or other restriction (including,
> but not limited to, related copyright, atents and trademarks) of which
> you are personally aware and which are associated with any part of
> your Contribution.
> You represent that each of your Contributions is your original
>
> creation (see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others).  You
> represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete
> details of any third-party license or other restriction (including,
> but not limited to, related copyright, patents and trademarks) of
> which you are personally aware and which are associated with any part
> of your Contribution.
>       </li>
>       <li>
>       You are not expected to provide support for your Contributions,
> except to the extent you desire to provide support. You may provide
> support for free, for a fee, or not at all. Your Contributions are
> provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
> KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any
> warranties or conditions of NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> diff --git a/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt b/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
> index 37f7caf..1439d80 100644
> --- a/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
> +++ b/fas/templates/cla/cla.txt
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ ${person.postal_address}
>          You represent that your Contribution submission(s) include
>          complete details of any third-party license or other
>          restriction (including, but not limited to, related copyright,
>   atents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and
>   patents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and
>    which are associated with any part of your Contribution.
>
> 6. You are not expected to provide support for your Contributions,

Has this change taken effect on the Wiki? I may have git access, but 
I've never set it up.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Darren VanBuren wrote:
> On 1/24/2009 8:11 AM, Craig Thomas wrote:
> > 2009/1/24 Christoph Wurm:
> > > Dear Website Maintainers,
> > >
> > > apparently there are very few people who actually read the Fedora
> > > Contributor License Agreement.
> > > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/cla/)
> > > There is a typing error in point five misspelling "patents" as "atents".
> > > Quite embarrassing for a legal agreement, but it should be easy to fix.

Thanks for giving us a nudge about this but please remember that the CLA
is a legal document.  So we need to run changes by spot (who can decide
if we need to run the changes by a lawyer) before making them.

The issue with the typo is listed on this page:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues

but it's been there for quite a while. Spot, any word on what we should
do about this?

-Toshio

[Tom Callaway]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> The issue with the typo is listed on this page:
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues
>
> but it's been there for quite a while. Spot, any word on what we should
> do about this?

Please just fix it. "atents" is not a word, so we do not have to worry 
about the legal interpretations of making such a change.

~spot

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Tom spot Callaway  wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > The issue with the typo is listed on this page:
> >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues
> >
> > but it's been there for quite a while. Spot, any word on what we should
> > do about this?
>
> Please just fix it. "atents" is not a word, so we do not have to worry about
> the legal interpretations of making such a change.

Could we check to see how this got this way... I don't remember it
being atents before the mediawiki changeover.. but my memory could be
fuzzy.

[Ian Weller]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:58:57AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Could we check to see how this got this way... I don't remember it
> being atents before the mediawiki changeover.. but my memory could be
> fuzzy.

Here's the oldest revision available to MediaWiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Legal:Licenses/CLA&oldid=183...

[Mike McGrath]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Tom spot Callaway  wrote:
> > Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > The issue with the typo is listed on this page:
> > >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues
> > >
> > > but it's been there for quite a while. Spot, any word on what we should
> > > do about this?
> >
> > Please just fix it. "atents" is not a word, so we do not have to worry about
> > the legal interpretations of making such a change.
>
> Could we check to see how this got this way... I don't remember it
> being atents before the mediawiki changeover.. but my memory could be
> fuzzy.

I took this as an opportunity to do an audit to see exactly when / how it
did get introduce.  It's been like that since June 25 2004 when the old
account system converted from using a straight fedora-icla.txt to the
fedora-icla-template.txt.  This particular defect was introduced when:

(including, but not limited to, related patents and trademarks)

Got changed to:

(including, but not limited to, related copyright, atents and trademarks)

Interestingly, the very first wiki CLA import I could find didn't contain
this typo so there must have been another canonical location it was taken
from:

http://fedoraproject.org/wikiold/Legal/Licenses/CLA?action=recall&rev=6

It may have been that Patrick saw and fixed it in this wiki initial
import.

Also interestingly is that during our FAS2 development, we pulled the bad
CLA.  But before deploying FAS2, the cla was actually fixed in FAS1 :)  So
it was actually correct for at least a short time before FAS2 got
deployed.

Anywho, as you can see, we have lots of auditing on stuff like this should
we ever need it :)  hope you enjoyed reading the brief timeline of the
creation of "atents" as I enjoyed investigating it!

-Mike

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > The issue with the typo is listed on this page:
> >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues
> >
> > but it's been there for quite a while. Spot, any word on what we should
> > do about this?
>
> Please just fix it. "atents" is not a word, so we do not have to worry
> about the legal interpretations of making such a change.

Ricky has fixed this in the fas trunk.  Thanks Ricky!  No hotfix applied
to the server at this time due to being in a change freeze until after
the Fedora alpha release.

-Toshio