winget integration now requires Microsoft CLA

[schollz]

winget integration now requires Microsoft CLA

[jathek]

Does "Submission" in this case refer to the code of the PR, not the code of croc?

[schollz]

@jathek good question.

as I understand the agreement, I read it as code of croc. (if its for the code of the PR, then I find myself asking the question of why do they need a CLA to protect autogenerated yaml files?). either way, the ambiguity is also concerning.

[jathek]

I assume they just want to avoid copyright trolls submitting PRs and then claiming rights to code in the winget-pkgs repo. "Project" in this case refers to winget-pkgs, as far as I can tell.

Edit: https://opensource.microsoft.com/program/#program-releasing, emphasis mine

All contributions to a Microsoft-managed open source project must use the Microsoft Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The CLA must be agreed to by all contributors who are not Microsoft Full-time Employees (FTE) or interns prior to the contribution being merged into the project codebase.

I'm pretty sure it's just a general CLA for any code submitted to an open source Microsoft repository, but hopefully someone else can confirm. You can't be the first to wonder about this.

[jathek]

Found a discussion on winget-pkgs that seems to confirm: microsoft/winget-pkgs#14084 (comment)

The commenter denelon is "Product Manager for WinGet" for Microsoft.

[schollz]

Thanks @jathek.

I like that they are responsive to the discussion around the CLA, that makes me feel better.

That question revolves around the Originality of Work which is also a good question but slightly different in my case.

I made a discussion in their repository, I'd appreciate if we can carry over the discussion there to get a more specific answer: microsoft/winget-pkgs#155182