On 20/11/09 00:54, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> On Thursday 19 November 2009 07:09 am, Benoît Minisini wrote: >> >>> There are two licensing problems in Gambas that must be solved. >>> 1) The first one should not be difficult: we must find a license for the >>> gambas wiki documentation that makes it free. I need suggestions... >>> >> Wikipedia uses the GNU FDL, and of course there are the various Creative >> Commons licenses that are better suited to documentation than programs. >> > It is difficult to determine the attribution of each page. By reading the > page > history, you can know all users that modified something on a specific page. > But sometimes it is an error, so you cannot automate the process. > > I suggest the following: > > - Using the GNU FDL, as it is used by Wikipedia. > > - All users having a write access to the wiki will be considered as an author. > > Now I think all wiki users should tell if he agrees with the license. Or > maybe > should we fix a date in the future, and if nobody explicitely disagrees until > that date, we apply the license. Because I'm not sure that all wiki users do > modify it. > > If you want a date, it should be in the near future, (months max). If someone disagrees, that person is free to remove their entries. Then, the wiki editor should have a text on the top that says that if a user commits an entry it means acceptance to the xxx license (IANAL).
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