[Vanhackspace] Proposed change to principles: requiring openness on VHS projects

[Jeff Davis]

Our principles[*] currently say that VHS is a "GPL/Creative Commons"
space and require that anything developed at the space be released under
the GPL or a Creative Commons license.  This came up at tonight's
infrastructure meeting, and it was proposed that we change this to say
that VHS group projects and projects using VHS infrastructure must be
"open," in two senses:

(1) Anyone can participate.
(2) The project must be released under a free/open source license (not
necessarily the GPL).

This would mean that if you are running a project on our servers, or
doing substantial development work on it using our servers, you'd need
to release your code under an open license.  If you're just working on
something on your laptop, no such expectation would exist.

Thoughts?

Jeff

[*]: http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=principles