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diff --git a/docs/designdecisions.rst b/docs/designdecisions.rst index 3398c24b..8fe4d1f0 100644 --- a/docs/designdecisions.rst +++ b/docs/designdecisions.rst @@ -47,11 +47,10 @@ Why WSGI Minimalism Chris Webber on "Why WSGI Minimalism": - If you notice in the technology listI list a lot of - components that are very `Django Project`_, but not actually - Django components. What can I say, I really like a lot of the - ideas in Django! Which leads to the question: why not just use - Django? + If you notice in the technology list I list a lot of components + that are very "django-like", but not actually `Django`_ + components. What can I say, I really like a lot of the ideas in + Django! Which leads to the question: why not just use Django? While I really like Django's ideas and a lot of its components, I also feel that most of the best ideas in Django I want have been @@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ Chris Webber on "Why WSGI Minimalism": deployment-howto, especially in the former making some notes on how to make it easier for Django hackers to get started. -.. _Django Project: http://www.djangoproject.com/ +.. _Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/ .. _Pylons: http://pylonshq.com/ .. _Pyramid: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/dev/ .. _Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/ @@ -244,17 +243,24 @@ everyone is the hero by Will on "Why AGPLv3 and CC0": .. _CC0 v1: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ -Why copyright assignment? -========================= +Why (non-mandatory) copyright assignment? +========================================= -Will Kahn-Greene on "Why copyright assignment?": +Chris Webber on "Why copyright assignment?": - GNU MediaGoblin is a GNU project with the copyrights held by the - FSF. Like other GNU projects, we require copyright assignment to - the FSF which gives the FSF the legal ability to defend the - AGPL-covered status of the software and distribute it. + GNU MediaGoblin is a GNU project with non-mandatory but heavily + encouraged copyright assignment to the FSF. Most, if not all, of + the core contributors to GNU MediaGoblin will have done a + copyright assignment, but unlike some other GNU projects, it isn't + required here. We think this is the best choice for GNU + MediaGoblin: it ensures that the Free Software Foundation may + protect the software by enforcing the AGPL if the FSF sees fit, + but it also means that we can immediately merge in changes from a + new contributor. It also means that some significant non-FSF + contributors might also be able to enforce the AGPL if seen fit. - This is important to us because it guarantees that this software - we're working so hard on will be available to everyone and will - survive us. As long as someone is interested in using it and/or - working on it, it will live on. + Again, assignment is not mandatory, but it is heavily encouraged, + even incentivized: significant contributors who do a copyright + assignment to the FSF are eligible to have a unique goblin drawing + produced for them by the project's main founder, Christopher Allan + Webber. See :ref:`contributinghowto` for details. |