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Editing other people's words #1

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This is a tricky area (especially as, per praisefiles/praisefiles#6, we're not demarcating clear copyright around praisefiles).

I think the baseline should be that it's okay to copyedit people's words, and it's okay to add clearly-denoted "Editor's note"-type annotations, but if you want the actual content changed, in any way that could remotely change its meaning, you should clear it with whoever the text is being attributed to - either in the pull request (for initially accepting the text), a self-pull-request that pings them to ask permission (if editing an already-accepted praisefile), or some other out-of-band conversation (like a hallway chat or an email), which you should note in the commit comments (so as to set a good example, if nothing else).

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          Editing other people's words · Issue #1 · praisefiles/praisefiles-protocol