Dist-git for Copr

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 16:48:49 UTC 2014


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:22 AM, drago01  wrote:
>>
>> Huh? What makes one legally not eligible to contribute? Just not
>> signing the fpca? How is that different from someone that submits a
>> patch via bugzilla / mail / whatever?
>> I don't think people check whether those patch submitters have signed
>> the fpca and neither do I think they should.
>
>
> This is a problem that I have with the FPCA and I have highlighted it the
> advisory board list before and no action was taken.   Fedora project members
> are enforcing it in places where it would be perfectly acceptable to take a
> patch under an open source license without enforcing the FPCA requirement
> unnecessarily.  There is no legal basis for that.

Well the FPCA seem to talk about this if someone that didn't sign it
sent you a patch all he/she has to do is to provide it under an
"acceptable license".


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