On 16 June 2014 17:03, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The terms of use is basically a clickwrap
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap> agreement, right? When you
make
a
contribution, you see "by clicking you accept blah blah blah" somewhere,
once you click knowing that, you made a sort of contract from a legal
point
of view. So the terms of use only applies to you
if you do actually see
that piece of text, which does not seem to be present on
mediawiki.org,
nor
on
gerrit.wikimedia.org, and obviously not in the git interface when you
are pushing a patch.
I agree with this reading, but I also think people like Bartosz will be
legitimately confused.
The contributions to
mediawiki.org are covered, see the Terms of Use link
on every page. That nobody bothered to keep the mediawiki page up to date
as compared to other WMF projects is...well, housekeeping.
That
gerrit.wikimedia.org doesn't seem to have any of the standard footnote
links (including the privacy policy, which is perhaps a more significant
oversight)...is that because of the interface? One would think a custom
skin could be developed that would permit inclusion of such links.
Part of the issue faced by developers is the fact that there is really no
viable method by which to "label" their contributions as "paid".
Doesn't
mean the TOU doesn't apply.
Risker/Anne