Something that has been on my todo list for an awfully long time is setting up a "Contributors License Agreement" for TiddlyWiki5. This is a legal agreement that contributors must sign in order to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).
It's all too easy to see CLAs as another layer of bureaucratic make-work provoked by lawyers, but I learned while I was working for BT that they have become a necessity for serious, successful projects. A clean CLA makes it easier for corporations to adopt software from a project, and for other projects to embed or embrace the software. Anyhow, pmario and others have kindly collaborated on creating a simple CLA (actually a pair of CLAs, one for individuals and one for organisations). Our CLAs are actually relatively simple documents; they don't remove any existing contributor rights, they just ensure that TiddlyWiki can use contributed code. If you'd like to become a contributor to TiddlyWiki5, please take a moment to review the CLA documents and the signing process that we've developed: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/contributing.md Please do let us know if anything is unclear or confusing. There are a number of outstanding pull requests for TiddlyWiki5 which I will be able to accept as soon as the contributors have signed the CLA. Many thanks, Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
