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Clarify the terms of the APGL license and its relation with the Social Contract

Avatar: Ivan Vergés Ivan Vergés
30/05/2019 18:34  
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I recently received a comment in my Decidim installation guide asking if the adoption of the Social Contract was mandatory to install Decidim.

Please see all the discussion here to understand the context (I encourage everybody to read the thread):

https://github.com/Platoniq/decidim-install/issues/30

As a summary:
I said that the only legal constraint is the AGPL license and the Social Contract is about being part of the Decidim community.

However, it seems that the social contract itself does not clarify this aspect and he proposes to change that.

QUOTING:

I suggest replacing this sentence from the Social Contract

"The use and development of the Decidim platform by an institution or social group of any kind involves the full and integral acceptance of, and commitment to, this social-contract."

by this one:

The Decidim software is covered by the AGPL license. [You can use it, modify it and redistribute derived versions of it you respect the AGPL license.] Contributions to the Decidim software are moderated by the Decidim association. You are welcome to take part of our association if you accept our Social Contract. Similarily, using the decidim.org platform requires you to respect our Social Contract.

END OF QUOTE

I am not sure if this should be exactly the change needed but I agree with the spirit. I would be nice to hear everybody's opinion on this matter.

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Clarify the terms of the APGL license and its relation with the Social Contract Comments 20

Reference: MDC-PROP-2019-05-14607
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Avatar: Carol Romero Carol Romero

And rephrasing the preamble of Social Contract as follows:
"By signing this Social Contract, any individual, institution or social group of any kind, commits to fulfill the principles established here when using, developing and participating in the community of Decidim".

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Avatar: Pau Parals Pau Parals

Hi @carol, thanks for summarizing.

I agree with what you comment. Just one note.

I think that the statutes are reflected as you say, but only at the level of legal persons (I understand that we are now talking about organizations) but not at the level of people (article 36). I believe that if we modify this phrase, it should be consistent with the statutes (perhaps a (c) should be added, making the signing of the social contract a requirement. For example: by means of a declaration). At the same time, I understand that it will be the Democratic Guarantees Committee who establishes whether or not to comply with the social contract. On the other hand, we have the verification committee. Should it be removed?

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