Let's simplify.
We want something with no ambiguities.
Move over everything under a new license.
One addendum. Anyone who doesn't agree with the new move and/or license
is free to withdraw their material.
Provide a deadline for withdrawing material. State this clearly.
If no one withdraws by the deadline then automatic permission to use the
material under new license is granted.
This will automatically remove any ambiguities.
It appears to me that it is very important that ambiguity is completely
removed.
Nino is right.
Let's remove all obstacles to moving forward efficiently.
Alan
ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
Then I'd suggest to start over ASAP.
Putting things right IMHO is an important prerequisite for productive
work.
Easy to say, but very difficult (but not impossible) to do.
Starting over introduces a lot of issues... maintaining 2 valid/live
Wikis is an admin nightmare. If you lock the old Wiki, then still,
each and every Wiki page will have to be (or at least should be)
assessed and "cleared" to move to the new Wiki under a new license.
If you don't move everything over to a new Wiki with a clear license,
you're left with basically the same situation we have right now
anyway... some pages that are under an unclear or undeclared license,
and some pages that are under a specific license.
It's a huge job... who will do it? Who will manage it? Who will take
responsibility for it? Who will contact (at the very minimum) all
project leads and get their sign-off for such a task? The licensing
ambiguity issue affects every page on the Wiki (the Documentation
section is somewhat in order with each page having a license footer...
either PDL or CC-BY). Getting signoff on something like this will be
an interesting task... not everyone agrees that there is a problem
right now.
I agree that something should be done, but what exactly, and more
importantly, how... I don't know.
C.
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