Talk:Contributor License Agreement

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The contents of the Canonical's contributor agreement page were merged into Contributor License Agreement on 23 September 2011. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

The page states with regards the KDE FLA "However, it is optional and every contributor is allowed not to assign their copyright to KDE e.V." The KDE e.V. does not have any code assigned to it, the FLA does not assign copyright to anyone, the developer retains the copyright, they just licence the KDE e.V. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.230.85 (talk) 06:42, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here I have to disagree with the person who wrote from IP 92.0.230.85. The FLA that KDE e.V. uses indeed *is* a Copyright Assignment Agreement, but one that carries checks and balances that are written in order to protect the Beneficiaries (i.e. contributors, who sign it) from eventual breach of trust by the Fiduciary (i.e. the person whom the copyright is assigned to, KDE e.V. in this case). Valerei (talk) 20:01, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]