On 16 June 2014 17:03, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@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