[Rdo-list] Follow up from RDO meetup at Summit: Fedora Project Contributor Agreement

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

[Copying Matthew Miller from Fedora Project for any other context that
he might want to add.]

This topic came up at the RDO meetup in Paris OpenStack summit, raised
by Tim Bell from CERN. Alan Pevec requested to follow it up with a URL
here.

Fedora project now has called Fedora Project Contributor Agreement
(FPCA) replacing the old Fedora Individual Contributor License
Agreement. Here is the official wiki page from the Fedora Project:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement

Quoting a couple of items from the Wiki page:

  "Q. Why did you change the name from ICLA to FPCA? 
  
   A. The new text is not really a "Contributor License Agreement" in
      the traditional sense, as that sort of agreement usually involves
      copyright assignment and an abandonment of rights to a project.
      The FPCA exists for one main reason: to ensure that contributions
      to Fedora have acceptable licensing terms.  We chose a name that
      did not use "CLA" to avoid confusion and to mark it as a
      distinctly specific license. 

   Q. The FPCA defines "default licenses" of MIT for code, and Creative
      Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported for content, why not
      $OTHER_LICENSE? 

   A. These licenses were chosen because of their widespread use and
      compatibility with most other Free licenses."


More details and the exact FPCA text is in the above wiki page (at the
bottom).

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/kashyap