Fossil SCM
Removed a final sentence in a paragraph that basically just restated the paragraph in the new Fossil vs Git doc.
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| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | ||
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | ||
| @@ -319,13 +319,11 @@ | ||
| 319 | 319 | A CLA makes signing up new contributors harder. It's an extra |
| 320 | 320 | gatekeeping step, so it discourages low-engagement contributors. A CLA |
| 321 | 321 | also drives off those unable to accept the CLA's restrictions on their |
| 322 | 322 | rights, which are otherwise quite minimal under a BSD-style license. The |
| 323 | 323 | GPL requires much the same sort of relinquishment of rights without this |
| 324 | -up-front gatekeeping. It's easier to contribute to a CLA-less GPL-based | |
| 325 | -project than to a BSD-based project that requires that contributors sign | |
| 326 | -a CLA. | |
| 324 | +up-front gatekeeping. | |
| 327 | 325 | |
| 328 | 326 | We think this additional friction is not an entirely bad thing. We think |
| 329 | 327 | it creates greater contributor community cohesion, because everyone who |
| 330 | 328 | made it over the legal hurdle has made an active step to get into that |
| 331 | 329 | community. More to the point here in this document, we think it affects |
| 332 | 330 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -319,13 +319,11 @@ | |
| 319 | A CLA makes signing up new contributors harder. It's an extra |
| 320 | gatekeeping step, so it discourages low-engagement contributors. A CLA |
| 321 | also drives off those unable to accept the CLA's restrictions on their |
| 322 | rights, which are otherwise quite minimal under a BSD-style license. The |
| 323 | GPL requires much the same sort of relinquishment of rights without this |
| 324 | up-front gatekeeping. It's easier to contribute to a CLA-less GPL-based |
| 325 | project than to a BSD-based project that requires that contributors sign |
| 326 | a CLA. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | We think this additional friction is not an entirely bad thing. We think |
| 329 | it creates greater contributor community cohesion, because everyone who |
| 330 | made it over the legal hurdle has made an active step to get into that |
| 331 | community. More to the point here in this document, we think it affects |
| 332 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -319,13 +319,11 @@ | |
| 319 | A CLA makes signing up new contributors harder. It's an extra |
| 320 | gatekeeping step, so it discourages low-engagement contributors. A CLA |
| 321 | also drives off those unable to accept the CLA's restrictions on their |
| 322 | rights, which are otherwise quite minimal under a BSD-style license. The |
| 323 | GPL requires much the same sort of relinquishment of rights without this |
| 324 | up-front gatekeeping. |
| 325 | |
| 326 | We think this additional friction is not an entirely bad thing. We think |
| 327 | it creates greater contributor community cohesion, because everyone who |
| 328 | made it over the legal hurdle has made an active step to get into that |
| 329 | community. More to the point here in this document, we think it affects |
| 330 |