[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: livecd persistence

[Douglas McClendon]

Matthias Clasen wrote:

> 
> I was just referring to your question about an "approved feature", but
> maybe I just misunderstood what you were trying to say.
>

I was responding to Jeremy's original email, in which he suggested the 
impetus for immediate action was to get the code into f8t2.  For that to 
happen, would require an "approved feature", if I understand the fedora 
policy correctly.

I further tried to bring some onlist exposure to the offlist discussion 
I had with GDK regarding why I haven't personally signed the fedora CLA 
such that I could personally add the proposed feature to the wiki.

The issue is, that the current (or as of a couple weeks ago) CLA would 
appear to give redhat the legal right to take works submitted under the 
CLA-related channels, and then modify and redistribute them without the 
GPL style restriction of requiring modifcations to be submitted back to 
the original author.

GDK and fedora legal seemed to agree that this was in fact the case, but 
I have not yet heard back from GDK's reply which he also cc'd to Max.

If those changes got 'committed' to the CLA to remove that (presumably 
unintentional, but still unpalatable) loophole, then I would personally 
sign the CLA, and submit the livecd persistence feature as a proposed 
feature, such that it could make it into f8t2, as Jeremy clearly has in 
mind.

I hope that clarifies the issue I was trying to present.

-dmc