Posted by davidam on November 2, 2014 at 9:10pm
Where can I read about the motivations to adopt individual holders instead of drupal become the holder of the modules? I'm interested on this subject.
Thanks!
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Where can I read about the motivations to adopt individual holders instead of drupal become the holder of the modules? I'm interested on this subject.
Thanks!
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It was never really a conscious decision. Dries started the project in 2000. There was no "Drupal" to hold copyright until the Drupal Association was started in 2007-ish. By then there were hundreds if not 1000 people who had contributed to Drupal core, plus who knows what for contrib. And trying to change that for future contributions with a Contributor License Agreement would have utterly destroyed contributors, as it would mean they had to sign a contract in order to submit a bug fix.
Basically, by the time anyone even thought about it (circa 2009 or so), it was too late to do anything else.