Chris Hostetter wrote:
I kind of glossed over this when Nicolas first sent it -- but it makes total sense ... if a redaio button in Jira is legaly binding enough to allow someone with a signed CLA to commit into the repository and include in a release, then a checkbox on a "web form based document repository" (ie: cwiki) should be enough to allow someone with a signed CLA to export all the documentaiton and include it in a release.
I don't think the analogy is perfect. Exporting the wiki would be a bulk, automatic process, while applying a patch is a manual and incremental. Part of a committer's duty when considering a patch is to determine whether the contributor likely had the right to contribute it. Doing this on a patch-by-patch basis is not so bad: chances are you're somewhat familiar with the contributor from the mailing list. A substantial contribution from out-of-nowhere should cause you to raise your eyebrows and learn a bit about the contributor before committing it. But doing it on a wholesale export of a wiki is much harder, since the wiki is constructed over years by a wide variety of contributors, and thus committers might not examine every contribution to the wiki they export.
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