[Fedora-legal-list] [Ambassadors] Request for Comments: Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

[Richard Fontana]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:49:52PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Given the established interpretation of the Fedora CLA by Fedora
> Legal, the 'nuclear option' was applied on the assumption that,
> regardless of such statements about licensing policy, documentation
> and wiki content contributions were, with rare exceptions,
> "Unlicensed" in the sense used in the FPCA and thus the contributor
> granted the broad copyright license "to Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of
> [Fedora], and to recipients of software distributed by
> [Fedora]". Thus, under the existing Fedora CLA, Red Hat (and, in fact,
> all other Fedora community members) had permission to license out
> most, if not all, docs contributions under the OPL, and under CC-BY-SA
> too.  

A clarification here: *Red Hat*-copyrighted contributions did not come
in under the Fedora CLA. However, all Red Hat-copyrighted
contributions to Fedora docs that were previously licensed under the
OPL are now also available under CC-BY-SA 3.0, so the statement in my
last sentence there is correct.

- RF