[nylug-talk] Running a FOSS project

[Steven Lembark]

>>> I think if you're going for a BSD-like license, you should be OK
>>> asking contributers (as you did me) the first time or two if the
>>> license is OK, and after that getting them to sign off on future
>>> contributions until further notice.
>> As a follow-up, suppose I include a patch in SVN and later learn that the
>> contributor does not wish the code to be licensed under a BSD-like license
>> -- is it sufficient to remove the code from SVN trunk, or would i need to
>> remove all traces of it from the repository?
>
> That's up to the contributor. However if they ask you to remove it,
> you have to remove it from anywhere people could access it via you, as
> the distributor, making it available.

Which is difficult to do with SVN: You'd have to regenerate
the entire repository. A better approach might be to say up
front that backing code out of the project will only affect
versions after the request is handed in -- the old versions
are still under their original aggreement which did have an
item in the repository.

Another way to say it is that backing out of the project is
not retroactive.


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