Relicensing and copyright, starting with Facter
Luke Kanies
As promised in the spring[1], we're finally starting to execute on our
licensing and copyright strategy.
At this point, our plan is to convert Puppet and Facter to the Apache
license, release any further projects under the same license, and
require CLAs for any significant contribution. We're not yet sure how
hard or successful that plan will be, so we're going to start with
Facter, and then make our plans for Puppet based on how that project
goes.
Our plan at this point is to follow the Apache project for our CLAs.
For example, here's the individual contributor agreement:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
However, that is not set in stone. This project necessarily involves
conversations with lawyers on our end, because we'll need to be able
to make promises to customers, and those promises need the appropriate
documentation to back them up. As everyone knows, lawyers are crazy,
so those conversations might result in some kind of change of the CLA.
Over the next week or two, we'll be adding the necessary documentation
to the web site, hopefully with all of the questions answered. Anyone
who's contributed to Facter should also expect contact from Beth Raby,
who works for me and will be tracking individual contributors down and
managing who's signed what.
Once we've got all of the contributions either assigned or rewritten,
we'll officially relicense Facter to the latest Apache license, and
reassess our plan from there.
If anyone's interested in participating in this project, please let me
know, as I'm sure we can use the help.
Does that work for everyone?
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Paul Nasrat
> As promised in the spring[1], we're finally starting to execute on our
> licensing and copyright strategy.
> Over the next week or two, we'll be adding the necessary documentation
> to the web site, hopefully with all of the questions answered. Anyone
> who's contributed to Facter should also expect contact from Beth Raby,
> who works for me and will be tracking individual contributors down and
> managing who's signed what.
>
> Once we've got all of the contributions either assigned or rewritten,
> we'll officially relicense Facter to the latest Apache license, and
> reassess our plan from there.
>
> If anyone's interested in participating in this project, please let me
> know, as I'm sure we can use the help.
I'd like to make sure there is still a low cost of entry to getting
patches in - so it should be possible to insert a simple pointer in a
ticket to the CLA, it should also be really easy for me to discover
(probably based on redmine login) if someone has signed the CLA so I
can merge patches efficiently.
Paul
James Turnbull
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Paul Nasrat wrote:
> I'd like to make sure there is still a low cost of entry to getting
> patches in - so it should be possible to insert a simple pointer in a
> ticket to the CLA, it should also be really easy for me to discover
> (probably based on redmine login) if someone has signed the CLA so I
> can merge patches efficiently.
I can add a link to the top of the "New Issue" template - we'll
create a page that holds the document and a list of those people
who've signed it.
Regards
James Turnbull
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Luke Kanies
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> Paul Nasrat wrote:
>> I'd like to make sure there is still a low cost of entry to getting
>> patches in - so it should be possible to insert a simple pointer in a
>> ticket to the CLA, it should also be really easy for me to discover
>> (probably based on redmine login) if someone has signed the CLA so I
>> can merge patches efficiently.
>
> I can add a link to the top of the "New Issue" template - we'll
> create a page that holds the document and a list of those people
> who've signed it.
It should also be possible to modify the user account in Redmine to
indicate whether they've signed or not, which might help.
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