[Devel] License acceptance in the patch upload.

[Jessica McKellar]

I also like the current system. It tells me who our new contributors
are and what they are working on without any effort on my part. :)

-Jessica


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Vivek Shrivastava wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> While reading this email, I was wondering if we should make agreement to
>> accept Affero GPL, as part of file upload in the bug fixes, that way 1. A
>> person won't have to declare this explicitly in the mailing list. 2. It will
>> always be available as part of bug.
>
> Hi Vivek,
>
> I think that there's a sort of trade-off between efficiency and feeling sort
> of "personal" (human).
>
> Here's my thoughts:
>
> The reason I came up with the plan of acceping the Affero GPL on the mailng
> list is a) it distributes a copy of the acceptance into lots of people's
> mailboxes, which strikes me as a good thing, and b) I like how it really
> gets people to join the mailing list and say hello.
>
> I'm personally made quite happy seeing these emails from people, saying
> "Hello," and I think it also shows everyone on Devel that our community is
> growing.
>
> So that's why I like the current system. I'm curious to hear more people's
> thoughts!
>
> --
> -- Asheesh.
>
> http://asheesh.org/
>
> Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish.
>                -- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
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