Hi,
I have no legal questions. It was just interesting to me how an act of higher order (the Law) constrains something to 50 years, and an act of lower order (a Contract) repeals the constraint.
Regards

--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Máirín Duffy <mairin@linuxgrrl.com> wrote:

From: Máirín Duffy <mairin@linuxgrrl.com>
Subject: Re: [Design-team] CLA
To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 6:43 AM

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 22:33 -0800, Hristo Petkov wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this Contribution License Agreement, but I have a question:
>
> What does 'perpetual' mean. In most of the countries the copyright
> licenses are for 50 years or so.
> Just in 10 years the computer will most probably walk around you in
> your house saying 'Yes master' and 'As you wish' and none of today's
> software will go on it. Anyway.
>
> There is no button to sign the CLA. Pls. advise.

If you have a wiki account you've already clicked through and agreed to
the CLA by creating an account. See this for more details:

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

This list isn't really the place to pose questions about the CLA if you
have concerns about it though (although you should have asked those
before agreeing to it.)

The CLA is managed by the legal team; if you have questins about it I
would advise you to follow the following advice from the Legal wiki
page:

If you have any legal questions that can be discussed in public, post to
fedora-legal-list . If you have any private legal questions send a mail
to legal AT fedoraproject.org. This is taken care of by TomCallaway

~m
   

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