Fritz Ferstl <[email protected]> writes: > I can see a few things to discuss here: > > - Information we need to provide to make it easily understandable what > the process is to contribute > > - Things we need to decide and act upon to complete this process (like > creating a contributor agreement)
Yes. I think it would be useful for Univa to say something official about it to reassure people that something is happening, and warn them about doing work which they may not be able to contribute if they can't get papers signed. Maybe I, or someone else, can provide a home for such things, though. By the way, I assume that papers aren't needed for changes which are insignificant copyright-wise, e.g. one-liners, and things which don't have creative content like those that can only be done one way, or typos. The FSF legal advice is that <~15 lines is small enough not to need (in their case) an assignment. See <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html>, though the legal advice seems to have changed over the years. It also mentions giving credit when people haven't actually contributed material, which should be done to help people feel wanted. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
