Re: Adding a donate link to the PHP website

Nicolas Grekas wrote: >There's one important piece missing in your analysis: > >https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#6-contributions-under-repository-license Note the second paragraph there: > Isn't this just how it works already? Yep. This is widely accepted as the norm in the > open-source community; it's commonly referred to by the shorthand "inbound=outbound". > We're just making it explicit. My reading of Ben's analysis is that not only is this widely accepted by the community, it's widely accepted by the legal system as well. So contributing via GitHub isn't doing anything extra here, they're just reminding their users, like statements of "all rights reserved" or "this does not affect your statutory rights". As to the main thrust of the thread: I agree with Larry's last email: both donation and licensing changes seem sensible steps forward. The only note of caution I would throw in is that the recent Technical Committee proposal [1] was soundly rejected, so any *organisational* changes are likely to be a lot more contentious. So care should be taken to separate those from purely legal or financial links. [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_technical_committee Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]