[Soc-2013-dev] wiki & doc guidelines

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi everyone,

I asked Vincent to remove the toolbar analysis from our wiki and 
copy it to own website. Blender is competing with commercial bizz 
nowdays, so we need to be careful with what we put on blender.org.

Here's some tips for developers:

- Avoid referring to commercial products. All of these  
typically have EULAs that forbid to investigate the products for any  
other reason than to use them.

- If you refer to products or technology, ensure it's public and free  
to share info. Include the links to such docs or web pages.

- Always document your progress and designs and publish it in the  
earliest possible stage.

- Don't mention (nor do) investigation of public patent databases  
ever, unless you already evidently knew it had to be done.

- Consider to publish or commit under Blender Foundation copyright. 
We leave it to developers free to keep it own (c), but it would 
help BF to get legal support (like from FSF).

Thanks,

-Ton-

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