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FOSSLC is a non-profit corporation dedicated to education, community, and business development involving open source technologies. Read more about FOSSLC
FOSSLC is a non-profit corporation dedicated to education, community, and business development involving open source technologies. Read more about FOSSLC
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The purpose of the Fedora CLA
It's my understanding that the CLA isn't intended to cover code that's under an open source license. Instead, it's intended to cover spec files, wiki contributions, mailing list postings, and other contributions that are not specifically under another license.Most of the projects on FedoraHosted are licensed under a regular open source license, such as the GPL, BSD, or something else approved by the OSI. This is the reason for section 1D of the CLA, which says that submissions may explicitly made under a license other than the CLA. And, obviously, patches submitted to a GPL project are covered by the GPL, not the CLA.The suggestion of hosting under FedoraHosted (vs Github) came from the event FAD and was made simply to take advantage of some better tracking and discussion tools -- not to interfere with the Freeseer licensing.(FOSSLC used Freeseer to record the presentations at FSOSS 2009, which I co-chaired, and I'm on the Fedora Board and was present at the Events FAD, but clearly IANAL, IANTFPL, etc...)