Licenses
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A full list of licenses and how they interact with Fedora is available on the Licensing page.
License Agreements
Releases of software from the Fedora Project are covered by a License Agreement.
This Website
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CSS and Layout Code
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Documentation
All texts from formal Fedora documentation are licensed under the terms of the Open Publication License v1.0 without options. See the Fedora Documentation Licensing FAQ for more information.
The Contributor License Agreement
The purpose of the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is to establish copyright control under Red Hat, Inc. on behalf of the Fedora Project. By having a single entity hold copyright:
- It is easier to be more nimble with future relicensing needs
- That one incorporated entity can handle being sued
- The project can act singularly on the behalf of all the code and documentation without having to make costly and lengthy research into responses from every copyright holder
All individual contributors to the Fedora Project are required to agree to the Individual Contributor License Agreement and all of their contributions are subject to it.
The Fedora Project Individual Contributor License Agreement
There are degrees of trust associated with the method one agrees to the CLA. Use the CLA Acceptance Hierarchies to figure out what method of agreement matches the type of contribution.