Fedora Social Contract

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> 
> I'm still a little new to the Fedora world, but I keep seeing this
> theme of Fedora used to be Red Hat, and controlled entirely by Red
> Hat.  Now it's a community effort that Red Hat has a controlling
> interest in.  Red Hat certainly wants this to be a community distro,
> and just five minutes of browsing shows me about 20 different ways I
> can join the community to help out.  If i'm Joe Skeptic though, what
> guarantee is there that I'm really helping the community, and not Red
> Hat?  What sets Fedora apart from Red Hat.  What is the 'community'
> that these Red Hat engineers are talking about?  These are the growing
> pains I refer to.  There are many other of course, but I can't solve
> them all :P
> 
> A social contract would be a document that we are all bound to.  It
> would define this community in no uncertain terms.  It might be a
> while before it's accepted widely, but it could go a long way to help
> people understand the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat better.
> 

How our contributions are used is not an issue for most. I would hope 
that most of us do what we do for Linux as a whole, good for Fedora, Red 
Hat, Suse, Ubuntu and so on. I know I would not want limits on my 
contributions that would prevent other distros from using them, 
improving them or even profiting from them provided they follow the license.

Fedora just happens to be my distro of choice and the avenue I choose 
for being a part of the greater Linux community.

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