Hi Frank,
Frank Peters schrieb:
Andre Schnabel wrote:
Interesting discussion, and necessary, too. We need to look
at how we can make the wiki usable for documentation purposes
either by changing the licensing of the wiki or the docs.
I see no reason to change the licensing at the wiki, as there is no
explicit license.
So that means that all pages on the wiki that currently
don't have an explicit license note carry no license at all
and that anyone who wants to reuse the content in any form
needs to contact the copyright holder for approval?
Correct. But again - this situation is caused by the way, the wiki
started. As it started without licensing resctrictions, only the
Copyright is relevant.
But who is the copyright holder? Do you look at the
wiki page history and identify the creator? What about
other contributors? Do I need to check back with everyone
on the history list?
Yes - that is (imo) the legal implication.
I guess that means that every wiki page needs to have that
license notice, since wiki pages technically are independent
things that may (or may not) be grouped using other mechanisms
(like categories or toc pages)?
IANAL but I'd say yes.
Anyway: I strongly recommend that any documentation work that is
started at the wiki is put under PDL - if possible. This would allow
integration with current documentation.
I guess that everything that was placed from the website to the wiki
is under PDL already?
Hmm - good question. If anybody moved PDL materials to the wiki but did
not mention the license, this might be illegal. But it should be easy to
heal that.
André
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