On 06/25/2009 12:54 PM, Eric Christensen wrote:
Do the individual contributors retain copyright on things they submit
to
the Fedora Project on behalf of the Fedora Project?
Yes.
Nevertheless, all contributions at this point in time are covered by the
CLA, and we possess the capacity to re-license them as we (Fedora/Red
Hat) see fit. Some people are uncomfortable with that, which is why I
have been looking at ways where we may be able to resolve that issue and
limit that power without un-necessarily tying our hands. In addition,
for a variety of reasons, many people will be unable to sign the CLA,
and I was hoping to find ways to permit them to contribute small changes
which are not of themselves significant enough to be copyrightable. This
may be impossible though, so I might end up having to settle for
rewording the CLA so that we have the power to use unlicensed
contributions under the terms of a predefined Free license, or a later
Free license of Fedora/Red Hat's choosing.
~spot