On 06/05/18 20:06, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On Sun, May 6, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Simon Lees wrote: >> The only way that I think we can realistically make the wiki situation >> better is by changing it now to say new changes are under the following >> license, then in 10 years hope that enough of the content has been >> changed that someone can delete all the remaining non licensed content >> then get someone else to fill in any gaps. > > I'm hoping it might also be possible to work at the level of individual > pages: find everyone who has contributed to a page and get their agreement to > put a license on it. In combination with agreeing a license for new changes, > of course. > That might work for the most part, then at least we'd just end up with a list of pages / sections of pages that need to be rewritten.
>> If we were to go with the suggestion I wrote above >> there are many others who could make that change easier then myself who >> has no access. > > Do you know who these people are? Part of what makes this tricky is that I > don't even know who can do admin stuff on the wiki. Unfortunately not, I only started having an interest in this area over the last couple of years. > >> Either way if something is going to change there needs to be more >> discussion yet as no one has agreed on which license we would use, which >> you need to decide before contacting previous contributors. > > OK, let's try to move that forwards. I propose that we use the MIT license > for any code on the wiki, and CC-BY for text and any other non-code content. > These are equivalent in spirit, but MIT is written for source code. > Id agree that's reasonable. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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