[Hplusroadmap] Ownership issues (was Re: First post)

[Jef Allbright]

On 12/2/07, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 02 December 2007, Jef Allbright wrote:
> > On 12/1/07, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am not at all restricting discussion to only my roadmap, but I
> >
> > interested in how you envision it being "yours", in terms of
> > ownership, oversight, ownership, hosting, etc.
>
> I am very much for calling it "mine" for the moment, since clearly I am
> the majority contributing author, but as it changes over time I am sure
> that other authors will be added to the list, as well as anybody that
> seems particularly active in pursuing its interests. I am not sure if I
> want to assign it a 'license' of any sort, but if I had to I might have
> to look into the creative commons or the GNU documentation license. I
> am also open to suggestions on this topic.

I think you're aiming in the right direction and I won't presume to
impose on your evolving vision of the structure of this project.

I do think ownership is key, in terms of maintaining the integrity of
the vision, but in a collaborative project this should be clearly
distinguished from ownership of the contributed intellectual content.

- Jef