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Murray Altheim commented on JSPWIKI-547:
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This is really one of those gotchas that might be a recommendation to people
setting up wikis.
Unless I've missed it, there is no license on the content of the jspwiki.org
site that would actually
permit movement of the content over to a different site.
There's three things to this:
1. intellectual property (the ownership rights, legal and moral, attributed to
the creator of a work)
2. copyright (the binding between IP and the law in a given country, or at
least the signatories
of the Paris Convention)
3. license (the legal statement of the distribution and usage rights of those
wishing to view and/or
re-use the content)
The jspwiki.org site contains the text "Copyright © 2009 individual
contributors", which establishes
the intellectual property ownership of the content to reside with the original
contributors. That
effectively locks the content to that site, unless one could contact all the
contributors and get them
to sign off on moving it, which would be next to impossible. You can't
retroactively create a license
for the content either since that license wasn't in place at the time the
contributors were contributing.
So that content must remain there. Even pulling off individual revisions of
known contributors
would be extremely difficult.
The contents of the doc.jspwiki.org site are labeled "(c) Copyrighted work
licensed under the
Creative Commons BY-3.0 License.", so the content there can be moved as
according to that
license.
This is one of the reasons I've been trying (on wikis I've managed) to get a
license statement in
place (generally CC for content works fine) prior to the first person
contributing anything.
In practice it's probably very unlikely that anyone who's contributed to
jspwiki.org would put up any
fuss about moving the content, but legally it'd be an issue that perhaps the
Apache Foundation
might be wary of...
> Project name trademark issues
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> Key: JSPWIKI-547
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-547
> Project: JSPWiki
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Janne Jalkanen
> Fix For: Graduating
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> Check project name trademark issues. Question, what about jspwiki.org domain?
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