On Lu, 09 ian 12, 09:56:56, David Prévot wrote: > > > > How would I forbid anyone from complying with the Social Contract? > > Sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to a previous part of my message: Ugh, I snipped too much, let me try again: On Du, 08 ian 12, 10:09:43, David Prévot wrote: > Le 04/01/2012 12:00, MJ Ray a écrit : > > > 2. I feel that forcing a choice between copyright assignment and being > > airbrushed out of the website is rather at odds with the usual idea of > > voluntary contributions to the project. > > If we don't ask people, we're stuck (as we are for many years), unless > there is another nice solution we didn't yet think about. If a few > persons prefer to refuse copyright assignment and prefer to forbid the > rest of us to comply with our Social Contract, I don't see the point of > allowing them to do that. It was my impression that MJ replied to this: On Ma, 03 ian 12, 14:56:48, David Prévot wrote: > We could contact every current contributor, and ask them if they are > OK to: > - grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI; > - grant copyright of their past contributions to SPI. > > If they refuse to grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI, > or if they don't respond, the first action would be to remove their > commit access, so starting at <date> 2012, all the new content of the > website will be copyright SPI. Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean this seems a bit harsh to me too and is unlikely to attract new contributors (and might alienate existing ones). Just my 2 ROL, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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