[Open-graphics] Subversion commit policy

[Simon]

My opinion about the license: I think clause 7 belongs with or after
0, since they are both definitions, and definitions usually (?) go at
the start of a license.  Then everything else after three shouldn't be
in the source code at all, since it is relevant to contributors of
code and not at all relevant to people merely using or modifying the
source under the terms of the GPL.  Those clauses can go in
documentation for contributors, on the website, sort of like what
MySQL has at http://forge.mysql.com/contribute/cla.php

The credit section is unclear to me - are you advocating putting names
in code or not?  I agree with the advice from the "Poisonous People"
talk (http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645)
about this.  It's hard to decide when to put a name in a file or not,
and it shouldn't even be an issue, since credit is given in a central
file.  I also like the idea of preventing individual ownership of any
part of a project, and I can think of a few reasons not to let anyone
"own" a specific part of a project:
-it may discourage others from working on that part, leading to stagnation
-the owner might feel like they have extra power over other members of
the community with regards to their code
-the owner might become biased against things like replacing or
refactoring away code that they own

These things being said, documentation of the legal and procedural
stuff is a much needed improvement when it comes to attracting
participation, so I'm glad the ball is rolling.