Hi Ross,

On Sunday, 2011-08-07 21:26:29 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:

> On 7 August 2011 16:55, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2011-08-07 11:27:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> >> 1) How do we ensure that contributions are made in a way that is
> >> consistent with the rights we need to even host the contributed
> >> content.
> >
> > Ensure that contributions are made under a proper license by having
> > a statement at a prominent place when editing a page. Have a bot running
> > that searches for terms like license and copyright and such and review
> > those pages, reject/undo edits if necessary.
> 
> The ASF is extremely averse with respect to IP management. That's why
> companies of all shapes and sizes are comfortable using Apache project
> outputs. I'm not part of the legal team. If the community wants to
> move towards this kind of model it will need to be run past the legal
> team. As I understand it this is not currently accepted practice (but
> I may be wrong and if Sam is reading he will correct me).

My proposal was due to my understanding that wiki edits should be under
a license (Apache or any of category A permissive) that would allow to
include any contribution in the "official" release documentation that
must be under AL2 or compatible.

Am I wrong on this?

  Eike

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