Hi Boyuan, On 13 April 2018 at 03:03, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Several weeks have passed and seems that there's no progress here; the mail > copy sent to original discussion participants got no replies and one of the > email address also bounces.
Sorry for the lack of reply, I've been quite busy lately. I also don't have a great answer for you. We cannot post-hoc enforce a licence on content: anything that is there is copyright to the actual author. We can enforce a licence on new content, but relicensing the existing content is quite a time-consuming process: first finding who wrote it in the first place, and then getting in contact with them. The former is difficult because we have moved from twiki -> MoinMoin -> ikiwiki, in most cases losing history. We can find the history, but it takes a lot of time. Secondly, this content dates back in some cases to 2004, and contacting people after 14 years is notoriously difficult. This is not to say that it can't be done, it's just that we don't have the time for it right now. Volunteers welcome. :) > It would be great if anyone could help me get into contact with the original > author of > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface > . Besides, I believe setting up a default license for freedesktop.org contents > should be of higher priority given freedesktop.org's fame and importance in > FLOSS world. I've CCed the two people who I believe wrote the content originally, who can answer for the spec. They could assign a licence to it and perhaps move it to the specifications repo as well. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
