[Fedora-legal-list] Re: unifont in Fedora

[Qianqian Fang]

thank you Tom, and also Jon for an earlier reply. I think your replies
help a lot to convince Paul for his prospective contribution to Fedora.

and I am also looking forward to a more clear statement of CLA on
these discussed issues.

Qianqian

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:13 -0400, Qianqian Fang wrote:
>   
>> My understanding to Fedora's CLA is that you are not assigning the
>> full copyright to Redhat, rather, you ONLY allow them to "to
>> reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly
>> perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such
>> derivative works; ..."
>>
>> In another word, if you define your software license as GPLv2, Redhat 
>> can only create derivative work from your software, therefore, they
>> can only be GPLv2. Redhat can not own the full copyright and revoke
>> your original license of your software.
>>     
>
> This is one of the main reasons why we're in the process of trying to
> rework the CLA, that section is not clear at all.
>
> 1D says "Any Contribution submitted by you to the Project shall be under
> the terms and conditions of this License, without any additional terms
> or conditions, unless you explicitly state otherwise in the submission."
>
> We're interpreting that like this (in English):
>
> If you contribute something to Fedora which is properly licensed, we
> will use it under the terms of that license. In the case where you
> contribute something to us without any license whatsoever, we will use
> it under the terms of an extremely permissive license.
>
> Specifically, that license is:
>
> "You hereby grant to Red Hat, Inc., on behalf of the Project, and to
> recipients of software distributed by the Project:
>
> (a) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free,
> irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of,
> publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your
> Contribution and such derivative works; and,
>
> (b) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free,
> irrevocable (subject to Section 3) patent license to make, have made,
> use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your
> Contribution and derivative works thereof, where such license applies
> only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily
> infringed by your Contribution alone or by combination of your
> Contribution with the work to which you submitted the Contribution.
> Except for the license granted in this section, you reserve all right,
> title and interest in and to your Contributions."
>
> (aka, section 2 of the Individual CLA)
>
> Nowhere in the CLA do you assign copyright to Red Hat, Fedora, or anyone
> else.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal
>
> (Disclaimer: IANAL, this should not be considered legal advice)
>
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