On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On 2016-05-20 09:04, Richard Fontana wrote:
>Does anyone happen to know when precisely the old Fedora CLA (not the
>current FPCA) began to be used? The presumably ancestral Apache
>Software Foundation Individual CLA was adopted by the ASF on
>2004-06-23, which was in between the release of Fedora Core 2 and
>Fedora Core 3.
So my understanding is that the CLA was put in place as a requirement of
CVS access during development/merger of Fedora Extras 3 (previous
versions were hosted by the external fedora.us project). You'd think
there would be some big announcement about this somewhere, but I haven't
found it yet.
At this point there didn't seem to be a procedure in place:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-January/msg00046....
An interim procedure arose shortly thereafter, but implies that no
non-RH packagers had CVS access yet:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-February/msg00208...
The earliest mentions of the CLA I could find were:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-March/msg00046.html
Also, without mentioning the CLA by name:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-March/msg00350.html
Very helpful, thank you!
Richard