On 23 Apr 2009, at 13:39, Owen Winkler wrote:
> 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. There's nothing stopping them from contributing provided they have signed a CLA. We are never going to get the legal protection that requires this unless we do this, which sucks (actually, you can in a few countries, like Scotland, which have legally binding verbal contracts, but they are few and far between). -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
