From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 00:02:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23311.8081.977179.449983@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_nHn3hVbZb7ZQpMkQxdpFKzujwTdCQpck1-VfdbbD3YpA@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:45 PM Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I have a nit question:
>> Can we please call the agreement "FLA" instead of "CLA", since it
>> is derived from FSFE's FLA-2.0, and is still a FLA at it's heart,
>> rather than a USian-centric CLA?
> As a USian, I second the motion. I think the FLA is a copyleft
> approach to CLA-like documents and I'd prefer that anybody who is
> adverse to CLAs in general take a moment to understand what the FLA
> does before rushing to judgment.
We have been asked by the FSFE not to call it FLA if we modify it.
And although I don't like this proliferation of versions, neither for
the DCO nor for the FLA, we don't have a choice here:
FLA-2.0 [1] says in section 4 (my emphasis):
| We agree to (sub)license the Contribution or any Materials
| containing, based on or derived from your Contribution under the
| terms of any licenses the Free Software Foundation classifies as
| free licenses *and* which are approved by the Open Source Initiative
| as Open Source licenses.
So it requires that we distribute any contribution only under a
license approved by both the FSF and the OSI. However, the OSI's list
of approved licenses [2] doesn't include any of the Creative Commons
licenses, which would prevent us from using CC-BY-SA-3.0 for our
documentation.
Therefore the "and" is changed to an "or", which is also the most
significant change in the Gentoo version. The other two changes are
that we have removed the reference to an "entity version" which
doesn't exist, and that we call our product simply "Gentoo Linux"
instead of "Gentoo Foundation's Gentoo Linux" (the latter being the
term that results from the FSFE's FLA generator).
Ulrich
[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/cla/fla-2.0.pdf
[2] https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-30 14:36 [gentoo-project] Poll: Would you sign a Contributer License Agreement? Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 17:45 ` Robin H. Johnson
2018-05-30 18:56 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:02 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2018-05-31 5:48 ` kuzetsa
2018-05-31 18:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] ` <20180530182136.GB18004@kroah.com>
2018-05-30 21:44 ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-30 22:31 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-30 22:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] ` <20180531070321.GC7744@kroah.com>
2018-05-31 9:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:18 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 10:23 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-05-31 22:24 ` Jonas Stein
2018-05-31 22:27 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-05-31 23:52 ` Raymond Jennings
2018-06-01 1:55 ` R0b0t1
2018-06-01 2:32 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-01 11:49 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-01 1:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:35 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-04 12:44 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
[not found] ` <20180625013334.GA28404@kroah.com>
2018-06-25 6:50 ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-core] " Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 7:02 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
[not found] ` <20180625070525.GA6151@kroah.com>
2018-06-25 7:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] ` <20180625110540.GB3058@kroah.com>
2018-06-25 14:08 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 14:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 14:46 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 14:56 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 15:53 ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 16:50 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 19:02 ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:13 ` Michał Górny
2018-06-25 20:28 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-06-25 20:33 ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 20:31 ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 20:52 ` Denis Dupeyron
2018-06-25 21:06 ` Alec Warner
2018-06-25 21:06 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 22:10 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-25 23:55 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-25 16:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-06-25 17:10 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-06-25 17:37 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-09 9:02 ` [gentoo-project] " Ulrich Mueller
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