Fedora Magazine license

[maiki]

On 01/08/2013 06:43 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:

> The contributor agreement is an agreement that we can license their
> works as, in this case, CC-BY-SA.  There shouldn't be a lot of friction
> in signing the agreement and I would suspect the most, if not all,
> contributors would have already signed the agreement.

I am unsure if this is the place to discuss this, so I will keep it short.

Content being licensed as CC-BY-SA on a site is an agreement, and one
that is used widely on the web. There are many sites that use it, with
the simple statement, "By submitting to our site you agree to license
your work under CC-BY-SA."

The Fedora Contributor Agreement has a larger process attached to it, as
I have just experienced. No doubt that has been brought up before, and I
don't care to throw my opinion in, but as a webcrafter that launches
sites, it is hard enough to get someone to email their work in, let
alone sign up, verify, agree, etc.

As it is the practice that the Fedora project uses, it must have its
merits. However, that is a hurdle for potential contributors. In
WordPress we have plugins like Authors Plus, so we don't even need a
person to have an account on the site for them to have a byline on a
submission.

I am admitted not caught up on the initial planning of the magazine, so
if there is a focus on seeking contributions from folks that are already
involved enough to have signed the agreement, I defer to your point. It
is not indicative of my personal experience (having been a Fedora user
for years), and my advise leans towards a workflow that encourages the
least amount of process to get content created.

That pretty much sums up my idea, so we don't need to discuss this on
this list. I realize it is kinda larger picture, and I am advising
because I am obsessed with webcraft, not because I feel like a
stakeholder in the magazine. ^_^

maiki