Introducing the new Community License Agreement for WebODF contributors. This short document describes what rights you as a contributor, and KO GmbH as the maintainer, have to the work you contribute to the WebODF project.
So, you may well think, why should do we want you to sign a CLA to contribute work to WebODF? Surely it's already covered by the project's nice, free software license!
One important side effect of the project's reach, which includes the iOS App Store, is that while the project license, the AGPLv3, is fine for most cases, sometimes it is problematic. The CLA allows the maintainer to bypass that issue, and create a product from the AGPLv3 licensed codebase which can be published on the iOS store, which has no in-built way of supplying the source code in the way the license otherwise specifies as a requirement.
In fact, the only app store which does supply a method for doing so is the Intel AppUp Store - not even Android Play allows the application creator to supply their users with easy access to the source for the software they are using. However, again - with the CLA signed by all WebODF contributors, this legally becomes not a problem, and instead becomes just a practical one, which that can be worked around through providing links inside the app on these devices.
In short: The CLA allows the project to reach places it would have otherwise been barred from.
If you have any questions about it at all, please do not hesitate to ask! Either on the WebODF IRC channel over on Freenode, or indeed any of the other contact methods listed on the WebODF website.
