>________________________________ > Da: janI > >On 26 December 2012 16:47, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > ... > >>We do have licensing issues with the content of both the wiki and the website. >>If you check the lengthy discussion we had about it you will find that the >>documentation is mostly licensed under PDL. As I said it's a can of worms, >>but it doesn't mean we won't have to open it. >> >Now I get it, I thought you meant the mediawiki general license. > There are for sure bigger issues with the general content, also according to > our ICLA we cannot simply copy it. >
The issue is the SUN contribution agreement for that content was that was under "Public Documentation License" by default, or alternatively under PD or some CC- copyleft. We can probably get some of that stuff relicensed but this is not usually covered by a SGA. It's a can of worms :(. >> >>It limits my ability to contribute to the MediaWiki content as it seems the >>wiki >>is unconnected to the rest of Apache. I think it's something that can be >>solved: >>my understanding is that accepting LDAP doesn't exclude volunteers from using >>the existing authentication accounts. >> >well I am right now doing my best to connect it better to apache, LDAP is one > small step, which I am actually sitting right now and reading about. Other > things > are the monitoring and other infra stuff, where I help out a bit. > Let me clarify this: you are doing a GREAT job. Updating the MediaWiki software was indeed a requirement for infra@ if MWiki is going to stay. I personally don't want to spend holiday time thinking about documentation or MWikis :). Keep up the good work! Pedro.
