[wp-docs] An Amendment

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Fri Sep 23 16:57:41 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:08 -0400, Scott Merrill wrote:
> 
> But prior to today we were not making much of an effort to make it
> clear
> to new participants that they were, in fact, agreeing to license their
> contributions under the GPL.  It was an implicit understanding at
> best.
>  _WE_ might have known it, but to a new contributor it was very likely
> non-obvious.
> 
> If they didn't know that was the license -- since there is NO license
> declaration anywhere obvious on most documentation pages -- how can we
> expect them to abstain from contributing? 

Exactly.  It should have been fixed long ago.

Ryan



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