Neil Mitchell wrote:
A link from the wiki to where? The wiki is supposed to take over the
haskell.org site. But maybe we can still have directories that are not
part of the wiki.


Some of the pages on the Haskell site simply *can't* be moved over to
the wiki, Hoogle <http://haskell.org/hoogle/> springs to mind, given
that its a server side application.

That's right, there's no point importing content that is already generated from source such as the Haskell Report. And we don't plan to wikify the whole of the GHC site, just some bits of it.

Ashley has a point though - we couldn't quote from the Haskell report on the wiki, or indeed quote source code from pretty much anywhere (most code has a non-PD license) if the whole wiki is PD. The wiki-wide license should contain the words "unless explicitly stated otherwise in the content" or somesuch, that way we can give attribution when we quote code.

I realise this contradicts some of what has already been said, but there is a conflict: making it easy to use content from the wiki implies a single license, but making it easy to use content from elsewhere on the wiki implies multiple licenses. A good compromise seems to be to have a default license (PD as suggested), but allow it to be overriden, sparingly, by explicit attribution in the content itself.

Cheers,
        Simon

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