FAQ
shiffman opened this issue · comments
As discussed in #5, an FAQ would be helpful to answer common questions and clarify "legalese" or other technical language in the license / code of conduct. I am also quoting @joeyklee's question which is relevant for this FAQ discussion.
This is a non-blocking / clarifying question
Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe that contributor’s copyright in it.
- I understand this to mean that: "Every person that contributes to this software agrees that anyone else can change the software -- build on top of, edit, update, etc -- as long as it does not break the agreement specified in this copyright"
Am I understanding that correctly? So in other words, "it's all good except that you can't break the rules here" ...?
Yes to the FAQ. And yes to @joeyklee's question. That understanding is the intent of the license language. We are trying to remove all barriers to reuse/improvement/modification except those that we are explicitly calling out (essentially comply with the CoC, include a copy of the license in your version).
We've started the FAQ here. It is far from complete, but hopefully it is a place where we can at least start collecting the Qs.