On 2019/02/18 14:30:38 Julian Foad wrote: > Thanks for your comments, Rich. >
> Re. "owning our data": we do own our source code but what about all the conversational metadata in GH? In the Subversion project we have a GH mirror of the code but pull requests and code comments etc. in GH aren't even copied to the Subversion PMC mailing lists, apart from the first message in each PR which is; these are known limitations.
I am no lawyer, but if I understand correctly, we own all of the data we created and store on GitHub. But "we" means individual (usually) contributors. The ASF itself probably owns little. So it is not legally clear, for example, if the ASF would be allowed to take that data and move it to a different forge without consent from authors.
You would be right if you claimed that full control over the forge would let us require a license grant for all contributions. Meanwhile, what I do to protect my own creations from copyright is to dedicate to the public domain, as you can see at the bottom of this very message (or, for an example in the context of GitHub, at the bottom of the body of https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues/1422).
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