[Incubator] Commiter Legal Guidelines

[Frank Warmerdam]

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Frank - looks ok to me (from a non-legal point of view).
> 
> I'm loath to bring up the next suggestion as I think throwing another 
> idea at a maxed out community is just going to slow us down, but I can't 
> help myself.
> 
> But I've noticed that each project is developing its own Software 
> Developer Guidelines. It would help if we had one Polished set of 
> guidelines which we all refered to, possibly with a few local caveats.

Cameron,

I think that at least for the legal aspects this would be a reasonable
approach.  Then each project could reference the central guidelines.

I do think that each project needs it's own broader developer guidelines
that address things in a project specific fashion.

Best regards,
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