Possible new CLA

Wed Apr 9 15:43:22 UTC 2008

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > There is a draft of a new CLA being circulated at FreeIPA:
> >
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2008-April/msg00052.html
> > http://www.freeipa.org/wiki/images/2/2b/GenericCLA.pdf
> >
> > I've asked Legal for a summary of what's changed and why, and an answer
> > to whether all Fedora contributors would need to re-execute this
> > agreement.  (I'm betting the answer to the last question is "yes," but
> > that's just an educated guess.)  I believe the changes to be minor,
> > mainly to eliminate loopholes and to make this process less onerous in
> > the future, but I'll wait for more information.
> >
> > Ricky Zhou tells me that our CLA signing information is kept in the form
> > of a log table, not a simple date field.  AIUI then, we have the ability
> > to find out what CLAs have been executed over the life of an account.
> >
> > If I'm correct about that, I want to say first, thanks for a really good
> > design. :-)
> 
> This is only true for FAS2, not FAS1 I think.
> 
> > Second, since a new CLA is a possibility -- I just want to confirm that
> > we are not *overwriting* old CLA data, i.e. we would maintain a history
> > that user "johndoe" signed a CLA on 2007-10-15 and then again on
> > 2008-04-28.
> 
> AFAIK the cla gets signed and a copy of it gets forwarded on to some legal
> address.  We might want to contact the owner of that address (maybe spot?
> maybe greg?) and see if that mailbox is still full of cla signatures.

I think it's spot.  He'll see this and confirm or deny as needed. :-)

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