In the case of new development, should governments enforce CLA? Should we provide a template?
Based on the principle that a government should not own the copyright in the long run, should the government make sure an organization for the f/oss project is created to be the owner of the CLA? Should the rule be that no government should be the owner of CLA?
- What would be the rules for such an organization?
- What should be checked ?
- organization should have its own account / repository?
- if a new organization is created it should have at least one actor external to the government or another government? Would the administration and the subcontractor working for that administration be enough?
- What about governance / commit rights?
- When should this be setup? As soon as an external contribution is accepted might be too early, but once the project is successful it might be too late.
Should CLA never be required by governments to make sure that the licenses choices are never changed afterwards?