A new contributor agreement for Fedora
A little over a month ago, the Fedora Project announced a plan to replace the existing Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement (FICLA) with something new, which we've imaginatively titled the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA). After gathering some feedback on the first draft from the Fedora community, the Fedora Project published a revised draft.
Some background: In many cases, individuals wishing to contribute to Fedora must first create an account in the Fedora Account System, a process that generally requires the new contributor to assent to the FICLA. The basic idea behind the FICLA's legalese is that contributors agree to grant generous permissions to Red Hat and downstream Fedora recipients covering the (so-called) intellectual property rights they may have in their contributions.
The FICLA, which has been used for a number of years, is based closely on the Apache Software Foundation's Individual CLA, with some minor changes. So far as I can tell, the Apache CLA has worked well for ASF projects in the several years since its adoption, and Fedora is not the only project to reuse its text. It is not difficult to see why the Apache CLA was originally assumed to be a good model for Fedora. On the assumption, which can be questioned, that some sort of formal contribution agreement was advisable at all, there were, and are, few other models with a genuine free software pedigree.
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