[TOS] contributors' agreements

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Dec 5 17:18:48 UTC 2009


On 12/05/2009 08:35 AM, Greg Wilson wrote:
> How diligent are this list's members about getting students to sign
> contributors' agreements for the projects they work on?  The students we
> had working on Thunderbird this term were required to do so, as all
> Mozilla contributors are, but some of the less structured projects
> (including the one I run *blush*) don't have any paperwork in place.

In GNOME we don't require any.  Contributors keep their rights.  We are 
strongly against requiring any paperwork for any of our modules as that highly 
increases the barrier to entry.

behdad

> Thanks,
> Greg



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