[Discussioni] Fwd: Open Directory Project Adopts Debian Social Contract

[Christian Surchi]

Open Directory Project Adopts Debian Social Contract

An anonymous reader says "The [1]Open Directory Project is
owned by AOL/Netscape and the status of the copyright and
amount of corporate interest has always been a question. In
light of a coming copyright revision, the staff was urged to
give something back to assure that the volunteers
contributing to the directory would not be taken advantage
of, as they were with CDDB/Gracenote. The Debian social
contract was brought up and was met with surprising support
from Netscape. Here is the [2]ODP's social contract. It's
seen as a great triumph for the volunteer community that has
worked so hard on the largest human edited directory on the
web." I was always skeptical of dmoz, but I'm pleased to see
this step taken. Now if only Gracenote would be good enough
to do the same. Oh wait, that would imply that they had
souls.

    <URL:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/1516219>
[1] <REF:http://dmoz.org>
[2] <REF:http://dmoz.org/socialcontract.html>

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