wiki license (www license...)
Hello,
I have read your blog about the wiki[1] with interest, and I have some
comments and questions.
Joey Hess wrote:
> I doubt that trying to get the whole wiki licensed under a specific
> license is a good use of time.
My intend is to have a default license, and to get it applied to
existing content that have unclear license.
BTW, I don't think we should have a single license for the wiki : some
specific pages, like DebianReferences, could have a specific license.
Can you clarify "good use of time" ?
> Since the wiki is not a package that we ship, but is instead a ad-hoc
> collection of many documents, and many conversations, I also don't see
> the point of a single consistent license, or any reason to be bothered
> by content whose license is not specified.
Actually, I have on my plan to create a debian package with a (partial)
copy of the wiki, so offline users can access read it on the CD.
Also, I consider that the content of most pages should be moved to
official documentations regularly (package documentation, README.Debian,
www.debian.org.etc...).
Finally I wish it were possible to share|fork|patch documentations,
including wiki pages, among distributions, with something like git+wml
(I'll post about this soon).
> Be very wary of anything that makes contributing to the wiki require
> jumping through more legal hoops than it takes to contribute to
> lists.debian.org or bugs.debian.org. Chilling effects can work both
> ways.
I don't understand the point here, the wiki already has a license[2] (or
it could be considered "public domain" due to the
missing /copyright.html).
Also, If someone don't want to contribute some code or some
documentation because of the license, then fine he shouldn't ! (Yes,
Debian has high standards, that's why I chose it).
If one wonders why I chose to add "www license" to the subject of this
mail, it's simply because the website has the same "problem".
Franklin
[1] http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/All_Seated_on_the_Ground/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/200504/wiki.debian.net/copyright.html
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