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For questions about the legal documents covering contributions from outside a project's core team.
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How does the optional Fiduciary Licence Agreement for KDE allow it to stay free/libre software?
The software would still be free even if every single contributor withheld their copyright. Copyright assignments and CLAs are mechanisms that make certain legal operations easier, like enforcement or …
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What are the advantages of adding a Contributor License Agreement to a project?
A contributor license agreement can do several things:
A CLA can require contributors to transfer copyright of all contributions to the legal entity (person or corporation) responsible for your proj …
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Question about the word "irrevocable" in a Contributor License Agreement
The CLA says it applies only to capital-C "Contributions" which is a term that would be defined elsewhere in the document.
As an example (not necessarily correspondent to your specific CLA), the Apac …
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Contributing as a company
There are two issues here:
Managing copyright and licensing of the company's contributions in a legally rigorous way, including corporate agreement to the project's CLA, if any.
The use of a single …
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AGPL, with Apache-2.0 option for non-commercial use
Are there any hidden pitfalls I may have missed here?
First, let us be clear that you want a choice of the AGPL or your own, proprietary license, and not the Apache 2.0 license. Saying "Apache 2.0 f …
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Is a CLA necessary?
A CLA is indeed not necessary for PDF4QT to use your contribution under the terms of the LGPL.
The main purposes of this CLA are twofold:
to potentially use the contribution under terms other than th …
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Can I resubmit someone else's pull request if he does not sign CLA?
This depends in part on what the CLA requires, but it may be possible.
Do you have the ability to reuse the submission at all?
In general, it's understood that contributions to an open source projec …
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