FOSDEM discussions

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 26.02.2008 15:16, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Matthias Saou wrote:
>>> Xavier Lamien wrote :
>>>> Regarding FAS, there still seems to be more work required :
>>>>> - Rebrand all of the web interface (to remove "Fedora" where it doesn't
>>>>> make sense to have it) - minor
>>>>> - Check and update the agreement text sent by email.
>>>>> - Make the agreement signing work (as it seems to be sent by email,
>>>>> thus processed by some script from there?)
>>>>> - Probably a little more fixes... testing will say...
>>>> That should be fix at the end of this week, will do some work around.
>>>> If you guys have some ideas about an potential theme, feel free to post.
>>> But if we need to redirect an email address to have sent emails be
>>> piped to a script on a server which has access to the FAS in order to
>>> check the GPG signature... it's going to be slightly harder and you
>>> will most likely need me to configure some stuff on the email side.
>>> If we don't really care about the agreement, and only want to verify
>>> the user's GPG signature, then we could short-circuit that part of the
>>> signup and just let the user upload a signed file through the FAS web
>>> interface.
>> I think this is the best idea, the CLA makes no sense for rpmfusion, as the CLA 
>> gives a license to an legal instance to use the code contributed, but there is 
>> no legal instance, so one party to the CLA is the contributer, but who is going 
>> to be the other party in the rpmfusion case?
> 
> Hmmm. You have a point. But on the other hand it might be wise to do
> some easy CLA like "You hereby agree that all you contributions to
> rpmfusion.org are licensed under <foo>  if not otherwise specified
> (implicit or explicit)" (foo=BSD?) Otherwise we might run into the same
> problems we had in EPEL recently ("Can I safely take a spec from EPEL,
> modify it and use it in my Repo?").
> 

Sounds like a plan, this also has the advantage that we can keep all the logic 
surrounding the CLA currently in fas.

Regards,

Hans