Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb:
What the heck is all the fuss about?
About legal issues :-(
Look, why is this an issue at all - if you post to a public wiki it is in the Public Domain - maybe I am being naive but here is how I feel: maybe someone will come along and use something that I posted to the wiki in their own work - great!
I consider my own contributions to the wiki as public domain as well (left aside, that PD is not really possible in local German law - but sometimes it is PD, as I cannot claim copyrigh for small edits - strange thing :-)).
That was why I took the time to make postings there in the first place, to give away some information that someone else might find useful. The operative terms there being 'give away' and 'useful'.
That's why I made my contributions. But other people feel, that their contributions are usefull but should be protected by a license. This is for example Jean's third party contribution or Maho san's writings about QA process (he likes to see this as LGPL'ed text). This is the right of every author - to protect her work. Some people (like FSF) even say, that only by applying a license the content becomes free.
I know many people who do not like to see their writings in proprietary products - or sold for money ...
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