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Overview
| Comment: | Removed a final sentence in a paragraph that basically just restated the paragraph in the new Fossil vs Git doc. |
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| User & Date: | wyoung 2019-07-12 15:41:02.491 |
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2019-07-12
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| 15:46 | Moved a sentence from the final paragraph up to the first in the "GPL vs BSD" section of the "Fossil vs. Git" doc. It was something of a non-sequitur where it was, and in its new position, it serves to bookend the discussion: we lay out our proposition at the top and come to a conclusion that we believe supports that proposition by the end. check-in: cb1b007cd5 user: wyoung tags: bsd-vs-gpl | |
| 15:41 | Removed a final sentence in a paragraph that basically just restated the paragraph in the new Fossil vs Git doc. check-in: f5a39a7e1d user: wyoung tags: bsd-vs-gpl | |
| 15:29 | Distilled the points about "GPL + CLA = commrecial interests" to only the bits essential to the "Fossil vs Git" argument. check-in: ba1fa73b87 user: wyoung tags: bsd-vs-gpl | |
Changes
Changes to www/fossil-v-git.wiki.
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317 318 319 320 321 322 323 | license. A CLA makes signing up new contributors harder. It's an extra gatekeeping step, so it discourages low-engagement contributors. A CLA also drives off those unable to accept the CLA's restrictions on their rights, which are otherwise quite minimal under a BSD-style license. The GPL requires much the same sort of relinquishment of rights without this | | < < | 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 | license. A CLA makes signing up new contributors harder. It's an extra gatekeeping step, so it discourages low-engagement contributors. A CLA also drives off those unable to accept the CLA's restrictions on their rights, which are otherwise quite minimal under a BSD-style license. The GPL requires much the same sort of relinquishment of rights without this up-front gatekeeping. We think this additional friction is not an entirely bad thing. We think it creates greater contributor community cohesion, because everyone who made it over the legal hurdle has made an active step to get into that community. More to the point here in this document, we think it affects the design and implementation of Fossil: its contributions come from a smaller, more cohesive group of people than with Git. |
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