In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Let's start with a mandatory "public domain/all rights given away". If we find we need to include copyrighted material, it can be changed later without too much trouble. I don't want to keep the GFDL there any longer. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
