Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 01:12, Owen Winkler wrote: > >> Modeling our own project on the ASF wouldn't have made sense if we did >> not agree with how it operates. Yet in the areas of infrastructure, >> user-contributed repositories, branding, and community-building - >> things >> that are important to keeping our community open - the ASF either >> doesn't provide what I think Habari needs or is more restrictive than >> the code of behavior under which Habari has so far flourished. That >> reason alone is enough for me to discount applying. > > A lot of the requirements that Apache places upon such things are > needed if you ever want to have any decent legal framework. There > needs to be clear transfer of copyright from the contributor to the > project, and that has to apply for the docs as well if we want free > documentation that can be safely distributed. It's hard to have a > fully open community while having a legal framework in place.
My issue in that regard has to do with discounting user contributions because those users have not agreed in writing to publish their code under the project's license. I encourage the use of those legal requirements, but I think segmenting the community between "PMC stuff where the PMC agreed to these terms" and "non-PMC stuff we don't seem to care about" is the wrong way to handle it, rather than enforcing those restrictions for all users across all Habari resources. Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
