History: Social Contract

This social contract, currently in draft form and subject to improvement and clarification, is intended to clearly describe the overall development policies and standards of the TikiWiki development team.

Parts of this document have been derived from the Debian Social Contract and the Gentoo Linux Social Contract, and it is generally very similar to these except that certain parts have been clarified and augmented while other parts deemed redundant have been removed.

Comments are welcome. Please send them to our tikiwiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.

We will release our contributions to TikiWiki as free software, under the Lesser GNU General Public License (or other licenses conforming to our social contract, at our discretion). Any external contributions to TikiWiki (in the form of freely-distributable sources or binaries) may be incorporated into TikiWiki provided that we are legally entitled to do so. However, TikiWiki will never depend upon a piece of software unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, GNU "Lesser" Public License or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

especially:

• general public: GPL
• free software: LGPL
• no-endorsement: http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license
• design-science: http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
• creative commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/

If you have links to other organisations and "public contracts" pursuing similar goals in different contexts and cultures, please send them to us. 😊

We are working on the TikiMasterPlan and use TikiCopyrights.