RE: Licences

Neil W. Van Dyke wrote:

> Anton van Straaten <[email protected]> writes at 16:43
> 23-Aug-2004 -0400:
> > We're currently officially moving into a beta-testing phase.
> > At this point, I think it's acceptable to err on the side of
> > caution when it comes to retaining any rights we might wish
> > to have in future.  We'll be beta-testing the reaction to
> > the licensing, as much as anything else.
>
> Good point.  Since we've learned that Schematics list members do
> have a wide range of opinions (but mostly the same goals), and
> we're sensitive to the issues, I'm now curious to have the system
> go live and see what the contributors do.
>
> It'd be good if we can show the current legal info when someone
> goes to contribute to the wiki, and that we solicit feedback on
> that in as best a way we can.  Maybe a prominent link to a
> LegalRationale wiki topic that is open to editing is a good start.

I second all of that.  I also think that if the rationale is laid out
clearly, it should satisfy most people, except those who will not accept
anything short of 100% free-as-in-GNU.

> If there's an easy way to add an optional radio-button voting box
> alongside the link to a legal rationale discussion topic, that might
> yield interesting popular feedback (as a complement to the
> vocal-minority feedback that an editable wiki pages elicits).  Does
> anyone already have a CGI script for recording simple voting box form
> submissions?

The Drupal software which runs lambda-the-ultimate.org (on the same server)
has a voting module.  I could easily set up a page using that.

Tangentially, I've been toying with the idea of using Drupal's comment
module, which supports threaded discussion, as a way to support threaded
discussion related to Cookbook topics.

BTW, another point for the FAQ will be "how come the site doesn't run 100%
Scheme"?  I'd like to have a good answer to that written up so that I don't
have to feel guilty every time I suggest something that isn't Scheme.  ;)

Anton



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