On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:38 AM, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I'm not sure what to suggest.. IANAL either and no one else seems to be engaging in this conversation :-S Kenan / Juliusz (I think you follow this list) - might be worth you following up with legal and raising a bug if necessary? Or maybe Amir, you should raise a bug and we could get someone from legals' opinion/
[Was not previously a list subscriber; have done that now. Thanks to James Alexander for bringing this to my attention.]
Kenan and I (along with other members of product and design) have been looking at this language for a while to try to improve it. #1 on my list is definitely to say "agree to irrevocably release" instead of "irrevocably agree to release". :) The legal meaning is essentially the same but the new wording would be clearer.
That said, we're thinking about rewriting a lot of the copyright language stuff to make it more clear (and hopefully shorter to boot!) so it don't think it is a high priority to rewrite/revise this - it may be completely revised/reorganized in the next few months anyway.
Hope that helps- Luis