Project Harmony decloaks [LWN.net]

Project Harmony decloaks

Posted Apr 12, 2011 5:22 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (guest, #3094)
In reply to: Project Harmony decloaks by AlexHudson
Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks

What are you talking about wrt fedora forcing copyright assignment.

the CLA and the FPCA are not copyright assignment agreements:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contri...

are you referring to something else?

-sv

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Posted Apr 12, 2011 7:04 UTC (Tue) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828) [Link] (2 responses)

I didn't say it was a copyright assignment agreement - in fact, I specifically said it was totally different.....

Project Harmony decloaks

Posted Apr 12, 2011 13:00 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link]

then I must have misunderstood.

Project Harmony decloaks

Posted Apr 12, 2011 19:28 UTC (Tue) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677) [Link]

I initially read your comment the way skvidal did, though I then realized what you were saying.

Fedora, in fact, is not simply using an agreement at the other end of some spectrum of contributor agreements, in some static sense. It has actively moved away from the maximalist approach to contributor agreements represented not only by copyright assignment agreements but also by that style of CLA popularized by the Apache Software Foundation.