Chris Ball wrote: >> Most project have some sort of agreement. > > Citation? Many of the largest free software projects in existence > have no such thing -- GNOME, Ubuntu, the Linux kernel -- and each > has widespread ties with all kinds of businesses.
Ubuntu has the Code of Conduit, which you must sign with your PGP key to become a Ubuntero: https://launchpad.net/codeofconduct/1.0.1 This is not to say we should imitate them, although the UCoC is the most reasonable agreement I've ever seen, as it doesn't even *try* to look like the legal nonsense I've seen elsewhere. Healthy communities and volunteer-driven organizations are based on personal trust and not on prosecution of those who breach legal agreements. Beware of those who tell you otherwise: they might be lawyers in disguise! That said, I wouldn't mind if we had a wiki page with something similar to the UCoC and we asked members to *informally* agree to it in a non legally binding way. -- \___/ Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ _| X | Sugar Labs Team - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ \|_O_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project!" _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
