On 4 August 2011 18:58, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I much prefer us to deal with this on individual, specific, concrete cases. > As long as there is permissive use for big chunks, we need to avoid solving > problems that we intend not to have, lest the law-of-unintended-consequences > imposes an unaffordable tax. With regard to existing materials, we will have > to simply deal with what those are. +1 I said "This is no different to accepting and applying a patch to code. The committer has to make ask herself "does this patch contain significant IP, because if it does I need to get an iCLA before applying it". Furthermore when the committer finds themselves thinking "hey, this is the fifth significant patch from Joe that I've applied with no changes" they should propose them as a committer." I should have also pointed out that there is rarely value IP in documentation contributions made via a wiki. Ross
