On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: Pardon me for snipping a bit; it all makes sense to me, but I have a CLA question:
> For my part I don't care who owns the copyright in the collective > works, but I need to be able to show our lawyers that the work is > adequately protected under British law, that is I need to show that I > have only licenced our contributions to the book and thus I can > continue to use our work in any way I desire. > > Having it licenced by to us is not sufficient for our legal team. We > need to retain copyright in our own materials and we need that to be > represented in the legal documentation. This means we need contributor > licence agreements as does any such project. When you talk about a CLA, do you mean something like this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Licenses/CLA or this? http://freeipa.org/page/User:Quaid/Contribution_policy_(draft) My concern in these cases is usually where you want the project to be able to scale. In such cases, I question your assertion, "... as does any such project." To an important degree, the CLA for Fedora has been a barrier to entry. Many projects, such as the Linux kernel, don't have a CLA but instead us a formal or informal contribution policy. Myself, I don't really care in this case; as long as the same freedoms are protected (and I'm confident you'll do that), then we are fine. But if I have to sign a CLA as an @redhat.com person (I might), I'll need to get it vetted by our lawyers. If I am agreeing to a clear policy, I don't see a need to involve lawyers. If I am acting as an individual, I will probably vet the document myself (as I do for any online policies, etc.) Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure why a full CLA is needed for this smaller project, not sure of the additional value, but really only have the above ways this blocks some of us proceeding. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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