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Comment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Changes+integrate+the+forums+into+the+AOOo+project?focusedCommentId=27827047#comment-27827047

Comment added by Peter Roelofsen:
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No, I don't agree at all. The ICLA is a statement in which you non-exclusively license Apache to use your work. But the rights that volunteers have beyond registered users have nothing to do with that work. Volunteers can read the management forums and they can post and vote in them. But as you will have seen, the number of posts in the management forums is insignificant in comparison to the total number of posts in the forums.
The management forums were hidden, not because the staff felt that they had something shameful to hide, but because they felt that nothing of what's discussed there is interesting for people who visit the forum to ask a question. Seriously, most people would have better things to do than read those forums.
I feel that before we decide to spend much time to come to an agreement we should ask somebody who is good at legal stuff if all of this discussion is even necessary. I don't object to signing a kind of contract with Apache that relates to what I'm doing as admin and moderator at the Dutch forum, but I feel that the ICLA is not about those activities at all. As a moderator and admin I have the power to delete and edit posts by other people at will, and nobody but the original poster may notice it, and there's nothing in the ICLA about that kind of thing. That's a serious shortcoming.



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