Cross-project collaboration project

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Thu Dec 20 04:02:52 EST 2007


On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:42:34 -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:29 PM, "Sean Egan" <seanegan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > IM Freedom would
> > also take liability for all the documentation, to protect individual
> > contributors if we get accused of revealing trade secrets or
> > something.
> >
> > I believe our rules say that all issues should be brought up for
> > debate on e-mail one week before a vote, so please discuss away.
> 
> I think it's a great idea and also a fantastic first imfreedom-as- 
> imfreedom effort.
> 
> To maximize legal protection, I think we should ask that copyright 
> for  all protocol documentation and sample code be assigned to 
> imfreedom...  But IANAL. Sean, could you ask the lawyers if this is 
> the right  practice and, if so, if anything specific is involved in 
> its execution?

I'm totally in favor of this.  So Youness Alaoui supports this idea, too?  And
he intends to help get things started (initial set up, spreading the word
around, etc)?

-Mark


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