I have my very own GitHub project under the terms of General Public License version 3. I am willing to post it in App Store (Google Play, …) later, and I am concerned about the “GPL Trap”, that could prevent doing that. By “GPL Trap” I mean the situation with VLC and App Store. I am not a lawyer b…

Hi GamePad64 welcome to the forum This is two different questions. The CLA documents that a contributor agrees to let Discourse use their code. The GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is what makes Discourse open source. AFAIK there would be no issue with your using the Discourse CLA as a base for yours. …

No, it doesn’t use the Discourse code and not connected to it in any way. It is a completely independent project, written in C++ and licensed under GPLv3. I just found Discourse CLA to be well-written, so I want to apply its terms to contributors of my project. So, I am asking, if the the CLA text …

[image] GamePad64: if the the CLA text itself is copyrighted It is my understanding that content does not need a copyright notice for it to have copyright. The CLA is not part of the Discourse repository so I don’t think the GPL applies to it. https://github.com/discourse/discourse I guess…

@GamePad64 I think you can use Ghost’s CLA: Ghost/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md at main · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub it is similar to Discource’s CLA, but shorter (Discourse’s CLA has a dedicated section about patents, and also a section that promises that the code will remain open source). Ghost’s CLA men…

[image] KajMagnus: Or perhaps both Discourse and Ghost hired the same lawyers afaik we based our CLA off the jQuery CLA at the time

Can I copy the Discourse CLA for my own project?

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sam (Sam Saffron) December 6, 2016, 4:55am 6

afaik we based our CLA off the jQuery CLA at the time

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