[TYPO3-doc] Encouraging people to contribute with Github

[Michael]

On 24/02/13 02:35, Olivier Dobberkau wrote:

>> Do not get me wrong: I am not totally against the GitHub idea but I
>> hesitate to be excited about it ...
>
> i would like to add my concerns that github is a us corporation that is
> under the us copyright system.  [...]
> please this in mind if we dont want our code being taken down by someone
> claiming copyright to code used in any typo3 project.

I haven't thought about this - that's a very important point, too, from 
my perspective.

 From reading the DMCA pages I get the impression, that, if someone 
claims any rights and informs GitHub about this, they take down the 
repositories in question and then notify the repo owner to allow him/her 
to sort out the issue - by entering an objection or declaring that the 
material has been removed.

I doubt that GitHub spends a lot of time investigating if the claims are 
legitimate and appropriate. Plus the time it takes to sort out the 
issue, plus the time for GitHub to check and reactivate the repos. So, I 
suspect, the repo remains down and not (publicly?) accessible for the 
time the dispute lasts, which can easily take some days, maybe weeks.

This would definitely be an issue with the core code, maybe less an 
issue for documentation (reST).


Cheers
Michael