Am Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011, um 22:02:45 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 21:45 +0200, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011, um 15:08:12 schrieb davidMbrooke:
> -snip-
> 
> > > > > With specific reference to the Wiki, there is currently no
> > > > > statement about the license which applies to the Wiki text itself.
> > > > > For my own contributions I would prefer to apply the "Creative
> > > > > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
> > > > > License" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) which is
> > > > > what Wikipedia uses.
> > > > > However there is some text imported from the previous
> > > > > DocBook documentation which may use a different license.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not aware that any docbook content has been written with a
> > > > special license in mind. Is it necessary to ask the original authors
> > > > individually?
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway I think the license sound good and reasonable for the wiki
> > > > content, at least as far as I'm concerned.
> > > 
> > > I will review the DocBook source for any license statements, but I
> > > propose to declare that the cc-by-sa license applies to the Wiki
> > > content if there are no objections.
> > 
> > No need to inverstigate the docbook license IMHO. My question was if we
> > have to ask those who has written the docbook-based contents
> > individually for permission (Arne, Martin, Jacques, EricS, ETitl, Luis
> > et al)...? As I said we've never discussed  license issues before, and
> > I'm confident they'll agree, if we add the license to the wiki you
> > proposed - but better be safe than then sorry.
> 
> KP & David,
> We've discussed documentation licensing in the past too. I think most of
> our current documentation was released into the public domain.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=leaf-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net&q=d
> ocumentation+license

Phew; you'll show a good memory (again) - the discussions are from 
2000-2002...

Do you think it's a pb if we change the documentation license to the one dmb 
proposed? 

kp

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