Typo in Fedora CLA

Craig Thomas bicycle.nutz at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 16:11:27 UTC 2009


2009/1/24 Christoph Wurm <wurm.ch at googlemail.com>:
> 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,




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