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