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4.5 Contributions To The Official FunnelWeb Contributions to the official version of FunnelWeb code are welcome, although it may be some time before I will be able to find the time to incorporate the changes into the official version. Here are some of the issues relating to contributions to the official version.
Contributions must be of sufficiently high standard to warrant inclusion in the official version. Whether a modification will be accepted will depend, amongst other things, on the following criteria.
It is my goal to guard the integrity of the design and code of the official version of FunnelWeb and so I will probably be rather fussy about what I regard as a worthwhile modification.
For various reasons, I have decided to maintain complete copyright over the official version of FunnelWeb, but release it under a GNU license each time it is updated. This means that, while you are free to create and distribute different versions of FunnelWeb, if you want your modifications to be incorporated into the official version, you will have to license copyright of the modifications to me (Ross Williams). Here's how it works:
+------->------+----------<-------+ |(mods by | | | me) V | | +------------------+ | +--<--| My Official Copy | ^ | Of FunnelWeb | | | Copyright (c) Me | | +------------------+ | (Periodic GNU | / \ release) V / \ Programmer +-------------------+ /Legal\ signs away | Official GNU Copy | \Filte/ copyright on +-------------------+ \ r / modifications (Mods made | \ / by random | | programmer) | ^ V | +-----------------------+ | Modified GNU Version | +-----------------------+ This organization allows me to retain full use of the source code for any private, public or commercial purpose, and for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the FunnelWeb language, while still assuring contributors that their contributions will become part of the public GNU version. This policy is my current policy as at December 1999, but might change, depending on circumstances.
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