From 457d00bf748a9e8004e7a6ae483b4ad4a0af7834 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikey Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:56:32 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] contributor license agreement, weee closes https://github.com/buttcloud/meta/issues/6 --- processes/cla.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 processes/cla.md diff --git a/processes/cla.md b/processes/cla.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..367b9a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/processes/cla.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Contributor License Agreement + +to contribute to ButtCloud, you must first sign a Contributor License Agreeement. + +## why? + +@ahdinosaur, the steward of ButtCloud, is committed to open source, at the moment all the code is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 copyleft licence. + +but we don't the ButtCloud project to be locked in to a legacy license, when promising new licenses such as a [License Zero](http://licensezero.com/) explore new legal territories, where we may in the future want to move to a peer production, copyfarleft, or reciprocity license. + +a Contributor License Agreement, as implemented here, allows contributors to grant a broad license to @ahdinosaur, the steward of ButtCloud. + +## how? + +once you contribute something significant, @ahdinosaur will contact you and setup a digital signature process using [HelloSign](https://hellosign.com). + +the document to sign is [this Individual Contributor License Agreement](https://drive.google.com/file/d/11bR0SIPjCjdBLi-p-XZo2CBPBeguCdAS/view?usp=sharing). + +after you sign, the document will be uploaded to a [drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/4/folders/1BZ0JezJ_9DhJ2HgpoyDV4qirpjcAXIyi) for safe storage.