Dear d-l, As you may know, a new official wiki service has been installed and is in the process of being set up. This is intended to replace the older wiki which Michael Ivey has been kind enough to maintain up until now.
I feel it is important to have a clear indication of copyright and licencing terms for wiki material and that it is desirable for the debian wiki material to be DFSG-compatible. In order for material to be migrated from the old wiki to the new, the copyright/licence situation needs to be clarified. The old wiki's copyright statement[1] suggests that ownership is held by the respective authors, and grants "Fair Use" reproduction. Would providing a data-dump for migration be covered under "Fair Use", and does this copyright preclude the adoption of a DFSG-licence? The new wiki has no definitive statement as of yet but I have requested one to be added and the matter now rests with the system administrators[2]. It has been suggested to me that debian-legal would be the appropriate place to request advice on how legal issues regarding migration of material might be addressed and what terms wiki material should be available under. As such, if you have any opinions or advice that you can offer I would be very grateful to hear them :-) [1] http://wiki.debian.net/copyright.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/WikiLicencingTerms Yours, -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
