[Libre-soc-org] [Bug 1208] create contributor license agreement

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208

--- Comment #7 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #5)
> (In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #4)
> 
> > it needs to be OR, not AND, because having *the license* be A OR B means any
> > contributors must license under each and every license for *all* licenses
> > listed in order to satisfy the whole OR expression (allow downstream users
> > to be the ones that pick which license(s) to follow).
> 
> that's a horribly confusing a definition of OR.

mostly just that you're thinking of it in terms of what contributors have to
do, but it's designed to be worded in terms of what downstream users have to
do.

> not a good idea.

we just have to state it in a non-confusing way.

> documentation is different from source code so it would be mutex-either-or.

we really should have the docs (and everything else we can) under the same set
of licenses since that allows us to copy stuff from/to the docs without license
issues

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