I agree with doing this. Ideally it is something that would appear on the Foundation website, i.e. not just for Project Harmony, but making it a clear policy is certainly the right thing to do.
FWIW the IETF do an equivalent thing (http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html) and even have it written on a piece of paper that is thrust into your hand at the group meetings. The tiniest nit: > If you do not wish your post to be a Contribution, please do not > post it. However, in the event that you do, ... how about If you do not wish your post to be a Contribution, we would prefer that you do not post it. However, in the event that you do, ... Regards, Tim Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I'm focused on bringing our legal framework issues to conclusion. (I > have a long flight today, so expect to see something COB today...) > > However, there's an issue that's been brought to my attention from > several people, and I wish propose that we explicitly state our mailing > list policies, as they are now based on "general understandING" rather > than a written policy that's available to everyone. > > I propose the following is added to the top of the mailing list page on > the site (I've added and published, currently marked as proposed) and > included in the welcome message for each subscriber, and posted once a > month to all lists as part of a monthly FAQ : > > Apache Harmony mailing lists operate under the following terms : > > This forum has been created for public communication about projects of > The Apache Software Foundation (the "Foundation"), a Delaware nonprofit > corporation classified as a public charity under 501(c)(3). All > communication intentionally submitted to the Foundation on this forum > is considered a Contribution to the Foundation unless otherwise noted > in the communication. The terms and conditions that apply to your > Contributions are defined by either a contributor license agreement > (CLA) signed by you and/or your employer or, if no such CLA is on file > at the Foundation, by the terms and conditions of Contributions as > defined by the Apache License, Version 2.0. > > > Further : > > 1) If you do not wish your post to be a Contribution, please do not > post it. However, in the event that you do, please mark as "NOT A > CONTRIBUTION" at the top of the posting. > > 2) Do not post any code that is not your original work, or code that > you do not have clear authorization to contribute. > > 3) Do not engage in detailed discussion of any implementation that you > have been exposed to unless such implementation is available to > everyone under an open source license or is your own implementation. > > 4) Under no circumstances will any committer accept code for inclusion > in our SVN repository contributed on the mailing list unless it is from > an Authorized Contributor, as defined $link. > > (I'm still working on the $link :) > > Comments? > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
