hey governance team, Gordon and I are at Wikimania, and we just went to this really interesting talk about Code and Attribution, and the man (Luis Villa, who used to be at Mozilla,) recommended that organizations include a code attribution statement into contributor agreements. He asserts that a lot of open source code is not correctly attributed or incorrectly licensed, and that by holding people to a standard of using "hygenic" code will be helpful in the future with legal code scans, and so on. Looking through the volunteer agreement, there is nothing in there about attribution or respecting software rights. He had quite a few suggestions as to how to do that, and I will link to the slides when they're posted.
Has this already been discussed and I just didn't see it, or is it out of scope for the volunteer agreement? Don't want to rabbithole the discussion, just want to make sure that this is considered. Best, Jennie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Sivonen" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 11:09:21 AM Subject: Re: Creating a volunteer agreement On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > DRAFT Volunteer Agreement > > > The success of our mission depends on the participation of people like you -- > people who are as passionate about == open source principles, standards, > products and practices == as we are, generously volunteering their expertise, > knowledge and skills to the Mozilla Project. > > In order to make your experience the best possible, here are a few "rules of > the road" to review before we get going. Please read through them and let us > know if you have questions or something just doesn't make sense. > > As a volunteer Mozillian, you will have the opportunity to make meaningful > contributions, to learn, to meet other amazing humans, and to receive > mentorship and recognition for your participation. In return, you agree to > help us advance the principles of the our Manifesto to the best of your > ability. > > Our community is like our extended family; we won't agree on everything or > always get along, but do treat each other with dignity and respect at all > times. As a volunteer, you agree to do that too. Our Participation Guidelines > are a good place to learn more about what this means and what to do if you > ever feel like you're not being treated this way. > > Being a volunteer at Mozilla means you freely donate your time, ideas, > heartbeats, etc. to help us accomplish our mission. You agree that you are > here because you are passionate about the Web and have no expectation of == > monetary == compensation. > > We'd love for you to talk about your experience with Mozilla. If, during your > time with us, you want to use any of our logos when you do that, you agree to > check out our Style Guide first, to make sure you use the right one (and > don't mistakenly violate our Trademark Policy). > > You agree to challenge the status quo, == to be unconventional == -- but > never in a way that violates local laws, our internal policies or the rights > of any group or individual. > > And finally, as a volunteer, you agree that you won't be able to bind Mozilla > to agreements or sign anything on our behalf == without prior authorization > ==. == To avoid misunderstandings ==, you also agree to represent yourself as > a volunteer rather than as an employee, intern or contractor of Mozilla. > > That's it. Now let's get started. Oops. It appears I didn't scan the thread quite as carefully as I should have before I posted my previous message. The above is *way* better that the draft that started this thread. Especially now that it's written not to look like a contract, please avoid titling this as an "agreement" and instead, please, involve it as "Stuff you should know" section in a larger body of content about how to get started contributing. -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
