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OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements

OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements

Posted May 24, 2011 2:59 UTC (Tue) by spot (subscriber, #15640)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements by webmink
Parent article: OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements

I don't oppose that terminology because it came from you, but rather, because it is possible to participate in a community without making a copyrightable contribution of code or content. Thus, I felt that the choice of wording was poor and chose to stick with "contributor", because even though that term could also be misinterpreted, it has a reasonably well established meaning in FOSS.


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OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements

Posted May 25, 2011 19:42 UTC (Wed) by webmink (guest, #47180) [Link]

Thanks for the reply. Why would you only want the people who are contributing copyrightable materials to agree to your community norms as they participate?

OpenOffice.org and contributor agreements

Posted May 25, 2011 22:24 UTC (Wed) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677) [Link]

The particular community norms in question here only concern copyrightable material.

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