On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Sunday, 2011-08-07 11:27:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >> So assigning an open license is entirely optional. I could upload a >> page under by personal copyright and demand payment of 20 chickens or >> 1 goat for copying the document. For example: >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General/What_is_a_good_rhyme_about_OpenOffice%3F > > Hehe, Clayton was very fast to ensure you won't need a new shed for all > those chickens and goats ;-) >
Didn't Clayton just say that he had left the project. So why does he still have super-user privileges? And since when does a non-project member have the right to revert a change by a Committer, with no discussion? >> I think this is a problem. Although I could easily accept some >> sandbox where random contributions could be made under a variety of >> eclectic licenses, we should be concerned with a few things: >> >> 1) How do we ensure that contributions are made in a way that is >> consistent with the rights we need to even host the contributed >> content. > > Ensure that contributions are made under a proper license by having > a statement at a prominent place when editing a page. Have a bot running > that searches for terms like license and copyright and such and review > those pages, reject/undo edits if necessary. > That could work. But it is a change from how the site works today. Would be good to have it in the terms presented to the user when they sign up for an account as well. > >> 2) How do we prevent core documentation and project pages from being >> contaminated by contributions that are incompatibly licensed? In >> other words, how do we preserve the rights of this project and our >> users and downstream consumers to be able to copy, modify, translate, >> redistribute, etc., contributed content. > > The same as for 1) > > Eike > > -- > PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. > Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD >
