Carbon Copy to debian-legal for their advice
Please Carbon-Copy both mailinglists when doing a follow-up. On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > Hi, > As Holger pointed out to me, it could prove very important, that we > define a clear copyright for the contents of the FAI wiki, to be able to > use it's contents flexibly somewhere else without trouble later. > > My feeling about copyrights and intellectual property often is, that > anyway you need to be a lawyer and/or have lots of money to be sure not > to risk getting sued and losing the lawsuit. Maybe that was one of the > reasons why I didn't care about that until now. > For the FAIwiki, my reponsibility requests that have to care more about > that, so, as it seems to be an important issue, > let's discuss here and see if we can agree on a license > the FAIwiki should run on. > > As Holger pointed out it could be very complicated to even change the > copyright after people put even a bit of content in, I put a copy of as > well as a link to the creative commons 2.5 attribution license in the > copyright part of the wiki now, that enables us, even if people add > content before we finish this discussion, to use these contents under > the new license we agree on. > > If nobody will comment, we stay with this license, if anybody has > comments, objections, ideas, whatever - please let's talk about it here > on the list - I welcome your feedback very much! :) The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de IANAL & AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License. Some of them are very restricting. e.g. "don't modify my beautiful painting". But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it ) Question to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which license (and which version of it) is adviced for a wiki in the spirit of DFSG? Cheers Geert Stappers
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