Legal the open source way

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This is a stub page for content that needs to be created. Chapter scope idea: review Groklaw article, summarize points, make a few good quotes, and out to original in an admonition to read the original.

The following notes are a summary of how I got to the point of writing this article, so I can keep track of the story, attributions, etc. --Quaid 00:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Rebecca Fernandez wrote this article:

http://opensource.com/business/10/5/build-authentic-valuable-online-community

... and in the comments Jason hibbets pointed out ...

http://opensource.com/business/10/5/build-authentic-valuable-online-community#comment-1731

... that PJ had picked up Rebecca's request for help in filling out the missing blanks in TOSW, and so we got ..

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100614034659206

(Quoted opening below.)

I read all that (great stuff), glanced at the comments (wow, lots), wrote up an appeal to PJ to relicense, and along the way ... I read something that reminded me to read the other comments first and not start my own thread if it belongs under another. So I skimmed all the comments, leaving out all the side discussions about "Google {should,shouldn't}" and such, and did find one where PJ explained why she would NOT be using a different license than the NC/ND for Grokla works.

So I wrote this:

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20100614034659206&title=Thanks%2C%20inclusion%20in%20The%20Open%20Source%20Wa\ y&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=0#c856388