On Mon, 26 May 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
Just doing some thinking ...
If we want to move our OpenID acceptance outside of Fedora's OpenID server, we'll have a blocker with the CLA. AIUI, we need someone to knowingly accept the CLA and have that tied to a Real Name and email address in our database. Right?
Correct.
However, OpenID could be a good way to get permissions to Talk: pages. That is a great way to get feedback from drive-bys, the kind of people who might take advantage of an OpenID to make a minor change on a page.
<nod> I looked briefly into this but haven't totally come to a solution yet.
Content in Talk: could be treated procedurally as we do bug reports. Maybe we can have a WikiLicense type of thing (FedoraProject:Copyrights link enough?) for that? Either way, Talk: could be a discussion area, cf. mailing lists and bugzilla, that may produce content. If someone gives specific wording and we want to use it, and now or later modify it, redistribute it, etc., it needs to be under the CLA and site license. This is comparable to receiving a patch via bugzilla where the contributor should include licensing text.
Yeah, this is both a question for legal and a question to see what is technically feasible. OpenID is great, but once again the CLA continues to be the biggest blocker to growing our contributor base.
-Mike