Re: Putting some FEPs under our CLA

st 1. 10. 2025 v 22:35 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
napsal:

> So, I was really happy to see that BlueSky has made a patent
> non-aggression pledge around ATProto:
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> https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge
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> It means that we here are able to explore techniques and patterns in
> distributed social networking without having to pursue difficult and
> unnatural paths just to avoid potential patents by Bluesky.
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> I want to directly say thanks to our CG colleague Bryan Newbold from
> Bluesky for this pledge.
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> So, how can we reciprocate?
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> Our specifications, AP and AS2, are already under the W3C patent policy,
> which is pretty comprehensive. The reports and other work that we do as
> part of the CG are covered under the CLA, which is also pretty generous
> w/r/t patents and other licensing.
>
> One part of our ecosystem that isn't covered under a patent license is
> the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEPs). They use a generous
> copyright license, but there's no licensing for other intellectual
> property.
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> A way that we in the CG could be helpful in this area is to do a
> secondary publication of FEPs we have authored on CG services, like a
> GitHub repo, under the rules of the CLA.
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> So, here's the proposal: that we create an activitypub-extensions
> repository, and copy FEPs that we've authored into that repo. I've done
> ~10, so it could kick off pretty quickly, but there are others here who
> could add theirs too.
>

Perhaps worth noting that the FEP process was designed to be lightweight
and inclusive of diverse FOSS contributors, including anonymous ones, which
doesn’t quite fit the W3C CLA model.


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> Evan
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