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Contributions of any sort (text suggestions, ideas, feedback,
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criticism) from all interested individuals are welcome and encouraged.
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All copyrightable contributions to copyleft-next are dedicated to the
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public domain to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law,
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pursuant to CC0. See the accompanying file CC0 for further details.
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Contributions from individual free/libre/open source software project
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participants, regardless of their views on copyleft, and regardless of
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their opinions on existing licenses such as the GNU GPLv2 and its
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successors, are especially welcome and strongly encouraged.
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Patches or merge requests relating to a given license text should be
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made against the relevant file in the Drafts/ directory, **not** a
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numbered version in the Releases/ directory. The files in Releases/
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are meant to be immutable. (Any suggestion for a better approach than
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this Drafts vs. Releases system would be greatly welcome.)
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Harvey Birdman Rule
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A nontrivial number of interesting collaborative FLOSS legal endeavors
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have been operated in a relatively nontransparent and methodologically
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suboptimal manner. This project aims to be different, and this
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therefore necessitates the following norms of participation, which
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shall be known informally as the 'Harvey Birdman Rule':
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1. Contributions in the form of word-processing documents (even if
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in a free/open standard format), "redlined" or otherwise, are
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unacceptable and will be deleted immediately.
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2. No private mailing lists (including but not limited to those
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governed by the so-called Chatham House Rule) will be used by
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this project. Public archiving of mailing lists used by this
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project is strongly encouraged; however, archives are not
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mandatory and partial archiving is permitted.
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3. Except in extraordinary cases, private telephone calls, private
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teleconferences, private in-person meetings, and private email
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communications shall not be used to discuss *substantive*
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development of this project. Should such private communications
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nevertheless occur, participants in such communications are
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expected to publish summaries of any relevant discussions in a
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manner or medium accessible to the general net public.
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4. Contributing by informal suggestions or proposals made in a
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posting to the project mailing list is welcome. However, any such
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suggestions or proposals that are made in the form of top-posted
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replies to quoted earlier mailing list postings by others are
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unacceptable and therefore shall be ignored.
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5. Criticisms of, or proposed changes to, the Harvey Birdman Rule
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are welcome, though such criticisms or proposals must themselves
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comply with the Harvey Birdman Rule as it exists at the time the
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criticism or proposal is made.
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Public Source Locations
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Gitorious (https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next) is now the centralized
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location of source for this project.
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Mailing List
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You can subscribe to the copyleft-next mailing list here:
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http://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/copyleft-next/
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IRC
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There is a totally official #copyleft-next channel on freenode.
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