On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:49:52PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
Given the established interpretation of the Fedora CLA by Fedora
Legal, the 'nuclear option' was applied on the assumption that,
regardless of such statements about licensing policy, documentation
and wiki content contributions were, with rare exceptions,
"Unlicensed" in the sense used in the FPCA and thus the contributor
granted the broad copyright license "to Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of
[Fedora], and to recipients of software distributed by
[Fedora]". Thus, under the existing Fedora CLA, Red Hat (and, in fact,
all other Fedora community members) had permission to license out
most, if not all, docs contributions under the OPL, and under CC-BY-SA
too.
A clarification here: *Red Hat*-copyrighted contributions did not come
in under the Fedora CLA. However, all Red Hat-copyrighted
contributions to Fedora docs that were previously licensed under the
OPL are now also available under CC-BY-SA 3.0, so the statement in my
last sentence there is correct.
- RF