On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 at 04:58 Julien Palard <jul...@palard.fr> wrote: > Hi, little follow-up about this PEP. > > > Please check with the PSF that this is what we really want. In the past > the suggestion has been to **not** use the PSF license with all of its > historical baggage but instead use something like Apache. But since IANAL > we really should ask the PSF what the best license for new code is. > > > I checked with the PSF and after a few emails with VanL (thanks), we > concluded that we need a "Documentation Contribution Agreement" (they're > working on writing it), then we'll *just* have to ensure contributors are > understanding and agreeing with it. > > I think we should setup a bot like "The Knights Who Say Ni" from PEP 512 > [1]_ or The Knight Who Say Ni itself, configured for the "DCLA" what do you > think? >
It's definitely possible. The bot is designed to be easily customizable from a server hosting, PR hosting, and CLA hosting perspective. Question is whether the DCLA will be managed the same as the CLA, i.e. a flag set on bugs.python.org? -Brett > The bot will *only* cover contributions from actual github pull requests, > other means of contributions like transifex can be enforced by other means, > namely: > > - We can write a welcome text like "By contributing to this transifex > project I accept the Documentation Contribution Licence Agreement…". > - We can ask contributors to specifically write they accept the licence > agreement along witht the translation independently of the way they send us > translations. (It even work for paper…). > > .. [1] PEP 512 -- Migrating from hg.python.org to GitHub > (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/#a-bot-to-enforce-cla-signing > ) > > -- > Julien Palard > https://mdk.fr > >
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